[consulting] Estimation-Blowout case-studies wanted

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

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Ashraf Amayreh schrieb:

> I think the most worrying part of an estimate is the gap between
> design and implementation. Except for projects that are totally
> in-house, a client usually wants to get a custom design that simply
> does not reflect on what modules provide, then time is totally
> wasted on forcing modules to look some very awkward way or creating
> new UI facets for them.
> 
> I believe that even more of a risk is when a designer conceptualizes
> a totally different way for doing something which can be done with
> less effort by a combination of modules.

Amen to that.

This has (until most recently) happened at every single project I was
involved with.

Cheers,
	Gerhard
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