No matter how much experience you have, unless you’re breaking your estimates down into smaller pieces, all the way down to the individual tasks — they’re likely to be wrong. Potentially very wrong. When Estimates Go Wrong With web technologies … Continued
Accurate Estimates
Web Proposal Survey Results: 2011
At the end of 2011, we did a small survey of web design and development professionals, asking them about how they estimate projects and write proposals. As a professional design agency ourselves, the results were enlightening. We write about 8-10 … Continued
You Should Be Quoting the “Privacy Policy”
There’s a saying in software development: the first ninety percent of development takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. This isn’t meant to be a scare tactic, causing project managers to throw … Continued
How much time do you spend on wireframes?
Whether you practice waterfall, or agile project management, or something in between, wireframes can be extremely useful. I would argue that they should be required for every project. Without wireframes, you will end up making poor decisions that will have … Continued
IE6 is Dead, Long Live IE6
Despite being released 10 years ago, despite having a funeral and numerous campaigns to stop development for it, the reality is that IE6 is still being used. The blame is usually to be put on large companies who can’t afford … Continued
How to Estimate a Project, Accurately
The key to building an accurate estimate, no matter the size of the project, is to break each feature into smaller pieces. Each piece should essentially be a task that you can assign and accurately measure by the the hour. … Continued
What Makes Evenflow “Intelligent”?
With Evenflow, we are trying to solve a problem for our own business, but we think it is a problem that most web design and development agencies must have. For us, every project begins with a proposal. Before the client … Continued