I wouldn’t necessarily call myself an expert on public speaking, but I do talk a lot. Whether it’s public or private, workshop or panel, paid or pro bono, standing up in front of a room full of people and waving my hands around is a regular part of my job.
A colleague prepping for his first [...]
A colleague recently asked me the following:
“What makes a great app?”
I thought about this question for days and couldn’t come up with anything more meaningful than “it depends”. Ultimately, I realized that my difficulty stemmed from the fact that question itself is flawed.
I’m normally a slave to Google Analytics, but I’ve been too busy lately to give it much thought. Tonight I took a look at my monthly stats for the past year and was shocked.
A few years ago, I realized that billing by the hour for software projects was a fundamentally flawed pricing model. I began looking for an alternative and found one in the excellent book Value Based Fees by Alan Weiss. I have been very happy with the results and have spent a fair amount of effort [...]
For this week’s installment of my series on value billing, I’d like to ask for your help answering a simple question:
What should my hourly rate be?