Imagine building a building without a blueprint. You just start and lay each brick as it comes. You don’t bother with the effort of planning and standardising spaces, plumbing, or electricity. You don’t stop to consider how the building will need to work with your specific needs. You don’t make a record of all the problems you encounter along the way, however useful that may be for the future. In fact, the project runs out of steam 60% of the way along because you have other priorities.
It’s no wonder you’re left with an ugly, incomplete, untrustworthy heap of grot that nobody uses or knows how to continue building or maintain.
And yet this is exactly how so many companies approach building a contract database.