Customizations - make or break

Customizations are either the devil or angel depending on stage of the project. It also depends on who is implementing the project - techno or functional person.

A techie prefers to customize while a functional person prefers to have minimum customizations. An inexperienced manager thinks that a techie is superior whereas the functional person maybe wiser. If so any functional solution is taken personally to be against the project. 

Pre-CRP when the pressure is high to put a solution in place and the client is scratching your back off, its so simple to offer to customize and close the issue.  

However once a customization goes live you are stuck with it since data is manipulated around the customization and oracle doesnt support it. It will be a mini reimplementation then.