You have written a piece of software which allows you to compress a months worth of work down to at most 2 days. The end result looking to the client as if it's been hand crafted. Do you:
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Poll: Contrator Morals
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Poll: Contrator Morals
30Complete the work in 2 days, astounding the client6.67%2Take it easy for a week or 2 and still impress the client with the speed of delivery46.67%14Slack of for the full month and deliver on time33.33%10Tell the client about the software and work that into the project plan0.00%0Give up and become AndyWs step dad13.33%4Coffee's for closers -
Edit, got the wrong end of the stick
Tell them you can do it in 15 days, slack off and look good. -
Spend the next 3 weeks perfecting it at your own pace. Therefore delivering a week early but knowing that it will work perfectly.Comment
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Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostYou have written a piece of software which allows you to compress a months worth of work down to at most 2 days. The end result looking to the client as if it's been hand crafted. Do you:
Crap question; a real contractor downloads a piece of software allowing one to 'compress a months worth of work down to at most 2 days', then invoices for the full month.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostCrap question; a real contractor downloads a piece of software allowing one to 'compress a months worth of work down to at most 2 days', then invoices for the full month.
"Slack of[sic] for the full month and deliver on time "Coffee's for closersComment
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Shouldn't the Poll be for Contrator Spelling?
Or Contrator Stiky Keyboards?
What have you been doing while working at your laptop??"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostCrap question; a real contractor downloads a piece of software allowing one to 'compress a months worth of work down to at most 2 days', then invoices for the full month.
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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Originally posted by cojak View PostShouldn't the Poll be for Contrator Spelling?
Or Contrator Stiky Keyboards?
What have you been doing while working at your laptop??Coffee's for closersComment
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You have written this?
If that is the case then you should do a projection of how much money the company will save over the next 10 years by purchasing the very reasonably priced piece of proprietary software.
Suitable price being 1 years worth of savings + maintenance contract or 2.5 years including source.
Otherwise keep doing it by hand and billing for the month.Just saying like.
where there's chaos, there's cash !
I could agree with you, but then we would both be wrong!
Lowering the tone since 1963Comment
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I have tools that I have developed that i use presently.
The use of these tools reduce prototyping and unit testing from 15 days down to 3. I still quote 15 days in the project plans I implement. That's because I own them and not the
client, so if someone else does the
work then it takes 15 days.
What is allows me to do though is save time in plan to
account for issues elsewhere. So far at clientco every project I have worked on has been delivered on time. Every other
project they do is late.
(on that basis when I delivered last week against the odds I was told to expect to be around all next year as well)What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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