Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Web Worker 101: Estimating Basics
Web Worker Daily: "As you enter a career of being an independent web worker, you can hardly avoid negotiating contracts with potential clients. Inevitably, the first questions that will come up are “how much is this going to cost?” and the closely-related “how long is it going to take?” Providing reasonable (and acceptable) answers to these questions is often the difference between a signed contract and an insincere commitment to call you back later. Whatever your skills as software developer or web designer (or whatever your web work career entails), you need to also understand the basics of estimating."
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It is like coincidence. The topic of this article is about estimating which is what we are doing in Tech Direction class. And its concepts are similar to what we get in both Production Planning and TD classes. Before we really have the actual experience, it is quite tough to estimate either price or time,particularly the latter. It would be like "guess". However, during the guessing process, we often overestimate our talent and underestimate the complex of a task itself. Besides breaking down a task into pieces,referring from the past experience also helps estimating. If it is the first time, it might need to require of other experienced people. Just NEVER optimistically underestimate a thing. Being cautious is better.
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