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OK. This is good. Your comment is telling me that I'm basically on the
right track. Let's hope the client doesn't run like hell now. I haven't
heard from him yet. I hope John's wrong about my having locked myself in
with my "seems reasonable" comment.
I've already got my connection to the client's server and the
application going on my computer, but I have no "raw material" with
which to work yet, and will only see the application in use when I get
the training. Ach.
Thanks, Gene.
Bonnie Granat
www.GranatEdit.com
Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
>
>> Was there a better way to handle it? I thought of posting my question
>> before I made the comment, but that was yesterday and I concluded
>> that I'd just see what you all would say after the deed was done.
>
> When I was consulting/contracting, I would tell prospective clients
> that I needed to see the product in use, even if it was in alpha
> form, before I could provide an estimate of hours required Usually
> that meant going to the client facility for a demo, but in some cases
> they just sent me copies
> to self-demo (if there was no working prototype, I could estimate
> from a copy of the product spec, but in those cases I always padded
> the estimate like crazy and made sure the contract provided for
> re-estimate when the inevitable feature creep happened).
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
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