Thank you Vahan, Ive made comments after your questions. Good luck on your migration work! Cheers,
Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vahan Yoghoudjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 3:45 PM Subject: RE: [delphi-en] [OUT OF TOPIC] Costing > 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 Kenya/Africa. Although IT and software development is not really at its peak, in about 2 or so years, corporates are discovering the benefits of computerising some or all of their operations. Its the next gold mine id say... > 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... I usually calculate my hours of programming using a tool like coderush, which ticks only when you start hitting keys of the keyboard as for copying or pasting blocks over and over; not a very exciting thing to do... > 3) Are you programming exclusively to one client? If yes, will you give him > the source codes No, its a software development firm, lots of client with lots of wide spread and perculiar needs; after sales support and training are other options hope to provide; but sometimes we outsource these so that we concentrate on development > 4) What features will your application have? Then again, this depends on the client... > 5) Any third party license fees included? All these costs are usually forwarded to the client; for example if the application will require MSSQL server we usually tell that to the client and he purchases the software, or we purchace and the client absorbs the cost. > 6) How fast you have to deliver him the application in consequence how many > developers do you need for that project.... True, we have two very experienced programmers who've worked with delphi since the demo version (late 1995) and have worked with turbo pascal for windows, borland pascal (dos) q basic; visual basic etc; this again i think might depend on the urgency > > 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 > > -----Original Message----- > 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. > > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ > To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ---- > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > a.. Visit your group "delphi-en" on the web. > > b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > c.. Your use of Yahoo! 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