A vision and design philosophy is the soul of a software project. Just mindlessly focusing on building all the feature-sets brought in by the client without defining the problem that we are about to solve, will lead us to no more than a zombie put together out of dead body parts. It matches all the descriptions on the client’s spec-sheet, yet it won’t live up to the expectations.
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Here is a little tip to make your price negotiations easier during the 2009.
As technology experts we often like to use every opportunity to remind our clients that we are on top of things and perfectly able to take care of their problems.
It is a bad idea that while we go through their list of requirement to say:
“Oh that’s easy!”
“Oh that only takes 20 minutes”
“Oh that’s just a (insert fancy technical name) that’s fine!”
Because then client will be having a difficult time justifying why on earth they should be paying you big bucks for jobs that are too easy, take 20 min to implement, and use technologies that are common place!
The reality is that:
Easy jobs will still take up some time to be implemented and the Client is billed for those hours.
Once tunned into the work mode, Programmers, Designers, and those who are in love with their work often don’t realize how fast time is passing, so several hours actually do feel like only 20 minutes.
So next time that we see an “easy” list of requirements, it would be better to say, “Sure, we know exactly how to do it, how much time do we have for this?”
Trust me! Your price negotiation will go through a lot smoother!
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Perhaps you have noticed the lack of activity on our blog and website. No we haven’t won any lottery tickets yet ( we don’t buy any ), but for the past few months we have been really busy with Client projects and also moved offices to Downtown Vancouver in the beautiful Yaletown area.
Our new office is located at #109 – 1118 Homer Street, Vancouver, BC (Google Map). We are the very social people offering Social Media solutions.
When we take a break and go for a walk, this is our view.
We are still unpacking and organizing the new location and try to keep up with the client projects in the same time.
Ash Sanieyan from PeerGlobe Technology. He is the best freakin Software Architect you can ever find
My wonderful friend Elliot, brought us awesome chocolate goodies! This fellow is my hero!
Another good news is that we have been working hard lately on the Anahita Social Engine project with my wonderful team-mate Ash Sanieyan from Peer Globe Technology and some great help from the folks at the Joomlatools. We like to think that the public GPL release of Anahita will be out within 4 months or less. If you like to get constant updates regarding the progress of the project please feel free to subscribe to my tweets
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Just heard from a friend that a client looking for a “Joomla Expert” hung up on them after hearing their rates. Apparently some people still think that just because they can go and download a free copy of Joomla, Drupal, or Wordpress that means any service provided in that domain should be cheap or free as well.
Reality is that Free in open source mostly refers to freedom to read and change the code to make it suit your project goals.
Continue reading ‘Open Source developers aren’t free or cheap either’
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I would like to thank Vivien from the Inspiration Bit blog for the wonderful interview that she did with me over the skype last Monday. You can read the blog post here: Social Media As A New Way of Doing Business
Thank you so much Vivien!
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