• @[email protected]
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      9 months ago

      Customers kinda want to know in advance if a task will take 2 hours or 200 hours in advance

      • @[email protected]
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        159 months ago

        “adding a button to the front page? Yeah, it will definitively take less than 6 months to make. No promises though.”

      • @mindbleach
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        09 months ago

        If that’s how the information’s gonna get used, great.

        Is it?

        Is it ever?

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          19 months ago

          In my case yeah. We’ll provide an estimate how much hours we estimate for a change or a project and customer will need to approve the hours as maximum what we can bill. If there’s problems and need more hours than estimated, customer will need to approve the new estimate so the work can continue.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      59 months ago

      As someone who has been doing this for two decades, I disagree. Give a firm estimate, and always deliver before you said you would, just make sure you pad the fuck out of that estimate so that it would be virtually impossible not to accomplish it.