Rant: My client portal migration ate 11 weeks, not the 2 we planned

We switched our invoicing and file sharing to a new portal last March for a 40 person client in Denver, and I figured it would take a couple weekends of setup. Instead we hit custom permission rules that kept locking people out of their own folders, plus their IT guy added a third layer of approval that nobody told us about. Has anyone else had a software handoff balloon this bad, or did we just mess up our timeline math from day one?

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dixon.iris1mo ago

Ugh, that third approval layer thing is like when you buy a house and the seller "forgets" to mention the HOA has its own separate rules. Same energy as every project that looks simple until you find the secret boss level hiding underneath.

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the_aaron1mo ago

Every project I touch ends up having at least one hidden boss, usually because I skipped the part of the manual that said read this first. The HOA comparison is way too real though, nobody tells you about the third layer until you're already stuck in it.

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