Re: Would you done such a project?
- From: "Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)" <NoSpamMgbworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:13:57 -0500
"Anton" <no_email> wrote in message news:e9KnbrqUKHA.4704@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi
I'm in touch with a company which wants me to develop a new website for them. The website is like facebook, where users have their own profile etc...
I've done a project before for them and suddenly in the during development they gave me a new requirement specifications (features not in original spec).
And also 3 days before the website was to be set in production, I got an email about how users profile should be stored. The profiles should not be stored in the mssql database as we agreed on but in a external system...
okay, the new comany is offering to pay me $41 pr hour and they have set a limit of 40 hours they will pay me... so if I use 500 hours I will get paid for 40 hours
Is it just me who think this deal is bad?
How would you handle you got a new software specification in the middle of the development process?
I don't think I can develop a new site from scratch within 40 hours, if you know a trick then please tell me.. (maybe there is something I'm not ware of)
I feel like saying no to doing this project
I don't do fixed bid unless we agree on the full term of the project up front. To agree with a number of hours, but not the number of features is JUST PLAIN STUPID. Also, you have to agree on the number of hours it will take. Even if they give you the features list, if they are bidding 40 hours when it will actually take 80 hours, you are being paid half what they are promising.
There is nothing wrong with taking a fixed bid project, but make sure you are comfortable with the pay. When someone gives you an hourly rate, but limits the number of hours, but not the work, then they assume you are an IDIOT.
Unless you have it in writing they cannot change the scope, and you have a scope you can complete in 40 hours, I would say the second word in the two word sentence is OFF.
It is simple math. From what you have stated thus far (company has already changed scope before without changing pay schedule), I think you are dumb if you do not get scope in writing and feel comfortable with your ability to complete it in the amount of time.
BTW, is this something through one of the sites like guru.com?
Peace and Grace,
Greg
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
Twitter: @gbworld
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