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| Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Feb. 24 2009,23:35) | Schedule advice for software design and production:
1. Think carefully about how long you believe it will take you to code the job.
2. Multiply the value by 4.
3. Ratchet the time units to the next higher unit: hours to days, days to weeks, and weeks to months.
So if you think that you can write that web application in 8 hours, what you tell the client is that you can deliver it in 32 days.
This method is depressingly accurate. |
Hehe. so true! Especially when the customer is such a large company that your 8 hours of actual work truly do look like a month of what they could do on their own. I bill at about $150 an hour (depending on the customer) and most of my jobs are nothing more than a glorified web developer. I don't even want to know what the chief technologist bills for himself.
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