Business Challenges in Estimating Software Development: Complicated vs. Complex Processes In software development, some processes are easier to estimate than others. Whether the process is complex or complicated has a profound impact on estimate reliability.
Business The Secret to a Profitable Career as an Access Consultant It may not be flashy, but it is effective.
Business Reader Question: How Do I Make Value-Based Pricing Work? Value-based pricing is not a synonym for fixed-bid pricing. To make it work, you need to focus on the business value you can generate for the client.
Business The Value Matrix: A Framework for Prioritizing Development Software developers are content writing great applications, but consultants understand the importance of delivering big business impact.
Business Impact vs. Effort: A Simple Formula for Estimating ROI There are two variables that determine the financial success of a software project. You only control one.
Business Sole Proprietorship vs. Partnership vs. LLC vs. S Corp. vs. C Corp. What's the best type of business for you? It depends on where you're at on your journey.
Business The Most Important Rule in Client Contracts This rule can be the difference between project success and project failure; joy and misery; profit and loss.
Business Shared Reports in Clockify Never waste time preparing a detailed list of hours for your clients again using this handy feature from Clockify.
Business Comparative Advantage One person can be more productive than another in every way, and yet, by trading freely with each other, both sides can come out ahead.
Business Level Billing: A More Predictable Way to Bill Hourly If you bill by the hour, you probably have clients with whiplash as their invoices yo-yo from month to month. Provide them predictability with level billing.
Business The Hour-Tracking Journey From Palm Pilots to Google Sheets to Clockify, I take a trip down hour-tracking memory lane.
Business Configuring a Send-Only Email Address in Outlook 2019 How to add an account in Outlook 2019 where the user name is NOT the same as the email address.
Business Manage Email Addresses for Multiple Domains with One Gmail Account Using Opalstack Some practical advice on how to configure email addresses for multiple domains so that you can still send and receive from a single Gmail account.
Business Prices vs. Estimates (And How to Educate Your Clients on the Difference) A price is a fixed amount. An estimate is just a guess. But try telling that to an angry client at the end of an over-budget project. There's a better way.
Business How Access Developers Can Charge Their Existing Clients More (Without Feeling Guilty) When you offer only a single option, a proposal is an ultimatum. Add in some monopoly power, and that proposal can start to feel like extortion.
Business The Most Profitable Mindset Shift for Access Consultants What do you call it when a client uses emotional language on multiple occasions to describe the same problem? A business opportunity.
Business The Biggest Mistake Access Developers Make When Writing a Custom Software Proposal I made this mistake myself for years. The good news is it is very easy to fix!
Business Site Search for NoLongerSet! It was long past time I added sitewide search to this Ghost-powered blog. I could have used Solr, ElasticSearch, or Google. I chose something else...
Business Google Analytics Alternatives Avoid GDPR cookie-consent forms and respect your website users' privacy with one of these privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternatives.
Business Pricing Annual Technical Support How am I trying to fix my biggest business mistake? By giving my clients three options that explicitly address their risk tolerance.
Business My Biggest Business Mistake What's the best way to bill for ongoing technical support? I don't really know (HA!). But I think I know the worst way to do it.
Business My Personal Journey Join me on a self-indulgent trip down memory lane, rationalized as a "context-setting" exercise for future business-focused articles.