Firehouse.com came to us and asked that we redevelop their site so we looked at the existing site. Then we discovered that they had a partially completed Drupal installation that wanted us to review. We looked at and thought, "This isn't so bad. It'll take 300-400 hours tops!"
Then they sent the requirements documents... We realised we were looking at least 3/4's of a person year and they needed it in 8 weeks.
This is the story of what we learned, how we adapted, and where we found ourselves at the beginning of July.
