[consulting] Professionalism

[Sam Tresler]

I will be most curious in hearing how long this job ends up taking in  
reality.  Part of me despises over-bidding just for the sake of  
overbidding.  The other part of me has spent 2/3rds of my web career  
cleaning up after the low-bidders.

-S



On Nov 24, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Fred Jones wrote:

>> I work with someone on a Drupal 6 site and he hired a fancy NYC
>> company (that charges well over $100 / hour) to do some more work on
>> the site. The client asked me to write up a certain job and include
>> some time estimates. Part of it is a custom node template, based on a
>> PSD. The site template remains the same--this node template is just  
>> to
>> customize the content section. OK, it may involve a *bit* of PHP for
>> special fields, but it's still just a node template.
>>
>> I estimated 3 hours and the NYers 33 hours. They estimate over $3300
>> to make one node template!
>
> Thanks everyone for the comments--some were quite interesting.
>
> I would like to add that this firm was already hired and did a few
> small jobs for this site, so the relationship already exists, as does
> a bit of knowledge of the site. The page in question is indeed complex
> and is more than just a node template. The other programmer broke it
> down into a dozen tasks, including building special functionality.
> Making the node template was just one step in the puzzle. His total
> time was 15 hours for the full job.
>
> Their total was 130 hours for the whole thing. They added that those
> estimates may be conservative but they see no way it can be done in
> less than 80 hours.
>
> The *client* agreed that such an estimate is ridiculous.
>
> F
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