Questions tagged [client-relations]
Questions regarding interactions with clients, including aspects of contract negotiation, requirements analysis, development, and maintenance.
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Where to find clients? [closed]
My main area: web development.
Of course, I don't expect anybody give away their 'gold mine' or whatever but I am struggling to see where I should be advertising my services. I have one other ...
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Delivering estimates and client expectations?
When a client asks for an estimate on how long it would take to develop different sections of an app, is it best to give them a total amount or what it would take for each section?
Is it better/more ...
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How to convince a client to switch to a framework *now*; also examples of great, large-scale php applications
I'm about to start working on a very ambitious project that, in my opinion, has some great potential for what concerns the basic concept and the implementation ideas (implementation as in how this ...
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Recording unstructured suggestions and feedback in an issue tracker?
I'd like to advocate the use of issue-tracking software within an organisation that currently does not use it.
But there's one aspect of their situation for which I'm unsure of what to suggest: their ...
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How to improve and start client interaction [closed]
How to remove hesitation of interacting with client ?
As a Devloper i want to develop my career but this require the better Client Interaction,but as now i haven't done any major client interaction , ...
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What to legitimately charge clients for [closed]
I'm not talking about fixed price jobs, they're fairly straightforward. But I'm on about an hourly rate project, my question specifically relates to what to charge for.
If I have an IE/CSS issue that ...
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Do we need to adopt a black-box asset our project is inheriting from its predecessor?
Our client has an eCommerce site which was developed by an in-house team, and is now showing its age. I work for a firm brought in as external contractors to build a replacement. Part of the current ...
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Best approach to designing multi-client applications
I was wondering how you guys start out if you need to design a multi-client project where multiple clients can interact with a server. In specific how do you go about dealing with different states and ...
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Charging by the hour/project [closed]
This is related to a question I asked earlier - https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/34023/how-to-end-a-relationship-with-a-client-without-pissing-them-off
What are your ...
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Who should pay for fixes/bugs? [closed]
So I just started freelancing both in desktop/web development and this client who already accepted my work, and payed me keeps coming back at me each time he finds a bug etc. And I have found myself ...
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Catering for client's web-hosting needs, minus the headaches?
I'll be trying to sell my Ruby on Rails development skills to small local businesses.
It seems I'd be shooting myself in the foot if I couldn't manage to put their apps into production, in fact ...
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Relation between developers and clients
I'm currently working in a small company that its taking care of implementing lots of systems, most of them for goverment institutions, in witch it generally means taking software developted 20 years ...
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Will HTML5/JS Eventually Replace All Client Side Languages? [closed]
I'm just wondering about the future of it all. IMHO, there are 4 forces that define where technology goes: Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe.
It looks like in Apple's iPhone/iPad iADs can now be ...
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How to get money from reluctant client? [closed]
I completed this website 4 months ago. (I would like to keep the website anonymous - if this post comes up on google search by customers, it will have a negative impact on their business). We did ...
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Working with clients who don't know what they want
I have recently started a job that has me working on an existing system. It requires tweaks and updates as well as new code. I have done several maintainance/feature adding projects now, and several ...
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How to handle demanding clients?
Frequently, I have been finding myself overloaded with contracts.
Most of the time, I find myself juggling with at least 2 projects, in addition to the numerous websites I have to upkeep and perform ...
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What is the (craziest, stupidest, silliest) thing a client/boss asked you to do? [closed]
See title, but I am asking from a technical perspective, not
Take my 40 year old virgin niece on a date or you're fired.