I gotta say. I am not impressed with how the author handled the client interaction. There are better ways to handle a stubborn client other than, “I’m better at this than you are and that’s that.” There doesn’t seem to have been a clear understanding about what the scope of the project was, so Alpha really thought it was his project to do with what he pleased. The author does indeed need to work on his people skills. Communication is weird, complicated, and important.