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What document/artifact should alert me when an old requirement changes the scope of new one?
I developed a software application a year ago, I delivered it with a simple documentation.
For example, it has an special and complicated login system as requirement.
Now the customer calls and ask ...
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Quoting for a project with closed source [closed]
I sit with a project that I need to quote, and until the job is awarded, I can only use "View source" to check, and ask a few questions about the system. That makes quoting outright impossible for me ...
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Is it okay to add time for "unexpected delays" to a time estimate?
I've landed my first contract (hooray, self employment!) and the company is asking for time estimates.
Programmers are notoriously bad at time estimates, and I know I've been laughably wrong before....
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Freelancing - Getting paid for the quote or estimate [closed]
It is often necessary to spend time designing a solution, breaking down the design into tasks and sub tasks and estimating the time it will take to complete each task in order to produce a reasonable ...
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How do freelancers know how much their work is worth? [closed]
I want to start a bit of freelancing in web development using ASP.NET MVC3 and PHP and I already have some people who are interested in hiring me, but I still can't figure out how much to charge for ...
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Statistics on time estimates for web application
I have been asked to help estimate the time it would take to develop a web application. I will not be involved in the actual programming, but I am participating as an "experienced" programmer. The ...
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