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Tagged with freelancing project-management
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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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Should one reject over-scoped projects? [closed]
I spoke to my first potential client today and he told me about the requirements of his project - an Android app. He is a well-known designer / photographer in my country and now wants me to "convert ...
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How to assure client that we will complete our project and won't run away with the money [closed]
I have decided to work as a freelancer. I have developed a software and have successfully given the presentation demo. The client liked it and has agreed to implement the project in his organisation.
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Business Equity for Code. Is it advisable to enter into such agreements? [closed]
I have been considering this approach for a project I am about to embark upon and would like to hear from other programmers about their experience in contributing code for equity. Has anyone been ...
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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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Version control and project management for freelancing jobs
Are there version control and project management tools which "work well" with freelancing jobs, if I want to keep my customer involved in the project at all times?
What concerns me is that repository ...
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How to test code and functionality effectively while working as a freelancer?
I work as an independent developer. I find it difficult to test functionality of a feature and test code. As project goes complex, I loose focus resulting in each feature partially developed. I want ...
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How should I describe the process of learning someone else's code? (In an invoicing situation.) [closed]
Edit: Justin Cave made a good point that this sort of communication should be up front in my quoting / estimations. Is this case, I'm still interested to know what sort of language people use to ...
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Can freelancers ask their client to sponsor an iPad for project needs?
I do freelance web projects for a client. The client has been asking me to buy an iPad for testing purposes. Should I ask him to get me an iPad ?
I otherwise don't have any need for the iPad. Is it ...
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What recommendations can you give in managing a team of remote software engineers? [duplicate]
I am a Web application developer who also is responsible for project managing some projects, I sometimes have to manage remote developers, who work for me under a contract basis. I feel that sometimes ...
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My first SLA(Service level agreement ) as a freelancer
I started to work freelance just a couple of months ago.
My first client asked me to create a web app, to improve his business. I made a little specification about what i was able to do and also an ...
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How do I deal with code of bad quality contributed by a third party?
I've recently been promoted into managing one of our most important projects. Most of the code in this project has been written by a partner of ours, not by ourselves.
The code in question is of very ...
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Is remote agile sustainable?
This is somewhat related to another question i just asked, but I'm freelancing solo and remotely for a contractor who is to project management, what big ball of mud is to code, so to speak.
I've been ...
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Are there any arguments that can make a contractor reconsider working on fixed price?
I've been working for a contractor who brings in some good projects, but they are all fixed-price and often fixed-time.
As a result he always has me making a quote over loose requirements, which ...
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How to bypass middlemen?
I'm freelancing on a project where I'm the only programmer, and find myself at the end of a line of four middlemen, who stand between me and the actual customer, each passing my work as internal to ...
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