a good article on this subject:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html
we always do fixed price
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Le 22/04/14 16:30, Wes Wilson a écrit :
We do not do fixed price contracts. This link exp
At 08:39 2014-04-22, M Jarvis wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:44 AM,
wrote:
> To bid fixed price, you'd better be good at your estimates.
and then double or triple them.
I thought that was for any project. For a fixed price, I would
probably refuse (or use a much higher multi
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Fred Taylor wrote:
> So:
> a 5 minute job takes 10 hours.
> a 2 hour job takes 4 days
> a 3 day job takes 6 weeks
> a 2 week job takes 4 months
> etc.
>
> Probably a lot closer to accurate in most cases. ;)
>
Amen to that.
Most of us have never done fixed-price
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:39 AM, M Jarvis wrote:
>
> and then double or triple them.
>
And increment the unit of measure. Hours -> Days, Days -> Weeks, Months ->
Years.
(Also a Whil Hentzen original, iirc.)
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--- StripMim
Murphy's Law on Estimating:
Original guess, next unit of measure times two.
So:
a 5 minute job takes 10 hours.
a 2 hour job takes 4 days
a 3 day job takes 6 weeks
a 2 week job takes 4 months
etc.
Probably a lot closer to accurate in most cases. ;)
Fred
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:39 AM, M Jarv
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:44 AM,
wrote:
> To bid fixed price, you'd better be good at your estimates.
>
and then double or triple them.
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On 2014-04-22 10:57, Stephen Russell wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:44 AM, <
mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:
To bid fixed price, you'd better be good at your estimates.
---
You need a set of documents defining what is to be done. The contract
will
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:44 AM, <
mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:
> To bid fixed price, you'd better be good at your estimates.
>
> ---
You need a set of documents defining what is to be done. The contract will
also define charging for change to the initi
To bid fixed price, you'd better be good at your estimates.
On 2014-04-22 10:30, Wes Wilson wrote:
We do not do fixed price contracts. This link explains why:
Fixed Price Vs. Hourly
Fixed Price Vs. Hourly
Fixed Price vs. Hourly Fixed price custom programming contracts can
result in a muc
We do not do fixed price contracts. This link explains why:
Fixed Price Vs. Hourly
Fixed Price Vs. Hourly
Fixed Price vs. Hourly Fixed price custom programming contracts can result in a
much more costly program. On the surface, this seems like a silly ...
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