Ok... I'm just doing a migration work and still have more than 600,000
records to copy so I have all the time to answer :)
Lot of points should be taken into consideration
1) Where do you live
2) How can you calculate total number of programming? Hours sitting in front
of the PC? you can be playing solitaire. Hours modifying your source codes?
you can be copy/paste/deleting the same block of text over and over without
actually really programming...
3) Are you programming exclusively to one client? If yes, will you give him
the source codes
4) What features will your application have?
5) Any third party license fees included?
6) How fast you have to deliver him the application in consequence how many
developers do you need for that project....
So in my opinion when a client comes and ask "how much does it cost"
you have to gather all those information, And the rest is related to your
environment, depends on the minimum/average hour wages of programmers in
your country, depends on what the client really wants, if he wants to run
the application over a LAN/WAN/Internet, internal functions with access
rights, auto-recovery mechanism, etc...
I could not directly answer to your question because I work in a company
that sells his own softwares with standard prices... so I never had the
experience of seeing a client enter to your offices and ask "I want an
application that does this and that... how much will it cost me?"
Hope this helps
Vahan
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf
Of Chris @ IT
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 1:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [delphi-en] [OUT OF TOPIC] Costing
Hi All,
This might be a bit out of topic but i think its a crutial for the survuval
of us all (programmers)
How do you cost a programming project? Is it per hour? i take it a
professional programmer can cost his work at about $25 an hour or close then
use a utility like coderush to calculate the number of total programming
hours; Is it by system features and challenges? Programming isnt really a
scalar measurable thing so ive always had this problem when a client comes
to me and asks "how much will it cost?", especially when you cannot factor
in things like popularity, marketing etc; Just a client who wants something
specific.
ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated...
Thanks,
Chris.
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