Re: Billable hours versus fixed bidding and flat rates for IBM i developers

Re: lawyer billing

In the mid-80's I was invovled in the IBM "MAP" program to sell S/36 and S/38. At the time, there was a package for attornies that ran on the S/36.

I was surprised to see that the package incorporated both "billed hours" and "actual hours" time buckets. The attornies were expected to accurately record their actual hours, then use some factor to record the billed hours (obviously, the factor was > 1).

When I asked about this feature, it was explained to me by the software firm that this was an expected feature in their package.

Craig Pelkie

----- Original Message ----- From: "jde iSeries" <jde.iseries@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:48 PM
Subject: Billable hours versus fixed bidding and flat rates for IBM i developers

If you bill by the hour, do you try to prolong/stretch the project as long
as possible so as to earn more money?
Is your approach to your work different on fixed bid projects than it is on
billable hour projects?
IBM i consultants may find this informative:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/business/30hours.html
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