[consulting] Managing look at feel...

[Javier Linares]

On mié, dic 14, 2005 at 07:08:24 +0100, Bèr Kessels wrote:
> Here is my workflow:
>  http://www.webschuur.com/node/96
> 
> it has proven the best route for me, after building a lot of Drupal sites. 

I don't know the size of your company nor the projects you make, but for us
(not very big sites, I think) that would make very difficult to estimate
the total cost of a project. We followed the beta-feedback twice and we had
to give both projects up (not receiving the money).

Most of my customers want to sign a closed budget before we begin, and our
experiencie with middle size project (+12000€ or so for a Drupal
installation with design) is that if you are going to let the customer
define things while working and/or coding, lists of changes are really long
and you end up making a lot of development.

For some reasons, when they see the betas working (and the powerful system
that is Drupal) they want to change almost everything and now they discover
that thing they didn't want (and they don't have money to implement) is now
what they really need. But in that point they don't want to talk again
about money.

So a lot of development implies we have to work with higher prices. So you
increase prices and that can imply you also increase the average size of
your projects, because small projects can never reach you. :)

But I suppose it depends on many things.

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Javier Linares     http://interactors.coop | http://javierlinares.com