Get them requirements

Speaking about requirements gathering recently someone had a realy nice metaphor for a difficult - if not unwilling - customer’s way of stalling a project.

PM: What temperature would you like the water to be?
Cust.: It’s too cold.
PM: What about now, is that better?
Cust.: Still won’t do.
PM: It would really help if you could tell me what temperature you needed it at.
Cust.: No can do but it’s defenitly too hot. Perhaps if you changed the fosset…

I’d take out the needle and have him sign his requirements with blood but he would later deny its his just to slow us down some more.