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How do you price your work?
Well, let me explain :
This has really been an issue for me, for such a long time. And what is worse - since coding is something I simply ADORE (I would definitely do it, even if there was no payment ...
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On what basis would you split donation money among your open source team members without any strife?
I am a developer of an open source project which is hosted in SourceForge.
It started out as a little app then after some releases, it got more and more popular and it started consuming more time and ...
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Is it significantly costlier to fix a bug at the end of the project?
In a blog post by Andrew Hay, the following axiom was posited:
It costs significantly more to fix a bug at the end of the project that it does to fix the same bug earlier in the project.
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Are there any statistics on how often code is read?
I have often come across claims that source code is read much more than it is written and just wanted to do a little calculation like:
If you write a line that takes me 5 minutes longer to read ...
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Estimating Cost of modifying someone elses code
I am relatively new to web development and haven't had to provide estimates for many large projects yet (my last large project was just paid for by the hour without a strict deadline or budget).
A ...
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How do freelancers know how much their work is worth?
I want to start a bit of freelancing in web development using ASP.NET MVC3 and PHP and I already have some people who are interested in hiring me, but I still can't figure out how much to charge for ...
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Software cost estimation
I've seen on my work place (a University) most students making the software estimation cost of their final diploma work using COCOMO. My guessing is that this way of estimating costs is somewhat old ...
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How do great enterprises estimate software development efforts?
I was learning about how to estimate software development effort, and would like to know how successful enterprises estimate their projects. How they do to know how much time a system will spend to ...
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What should I keep in mind when writing custom software quotes?
I've been asked to give a quote to extend a piece of software i'm currently giving away for free for use by a company. They tell me they are using it in-house at the moment in conjunction with some ...
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Development Cost of Google Chrome [closed]
How much money did Google throw at the development of Chrome ?
The actual figure is probably not public knowledge. An educated guess would be fine.
Bonus points for time-series data :D
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Which one is more reliable in a large project, COCOMO or FP?
I have estimated the cost of a product by COCOMO, then I estimated it by FP too. the results were so different from each other! The cost estimated by FP was about two times more than the estimated ...
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Quantitfying a cost for a software project
Disclaimer: I didn't know exactly where to put this question. If you feel that this question is not suitable for Programmers @ StackExchange, feel free to migrate it.
Background: Broadening my last ...
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Orthogonal design for product pricing and production planning with a NoSQL database
I am in the process of developing extensible software for the company I am working with for product pricing and production planning.
The Present Scenario
There are basically two types of products: ...
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Good examples for teaching software estimation (size, schedule, effort)?
I'm going to be teaching a class that covers a broad brush of estimation techniques. I intend to cover absolute estimation techniques based on SLOC (e.g. Function Points, COCOMO II etc.) and ...
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Are there any free software tools to aid software cost estimation using object points?
I'm looking for a free (or if there is none, then paid too) software that could aid estimating the effort to create a software using object points.
If anyone knows any other software that is able to ...
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Estimate cost of project depends on [SLOC|COCOMO]?
Is it logical to estimate cost of project depends on source lines of code?
Like those calculated reports from tools such as
sloccount
ohloh estimating
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How to convince [somebody|employer|client] ...
