My Dirty Little Secret: I Bill by the Hour
For the last few weeks, I’ve really been beating up on hourly billing. This week, I reveal my dirty little secret: I bill by the hour!
For the last few weeks, I’ve really been beating up on hourly billing. This week, I reveal my dirty little secret: I bill by the hour!
In my previous post on How To Prevent Scope Creep, I opined that consultants who bill by the hour do so because they don’t trust their clients. This week, I’ll explain why I bother yaking about hourly billing at all.
In my previous post on value billing, I opined that billing by the hour creates trust fractures in the relationship between client and consultant. This week, I’ll describe how a lack of trust can contribute to scope creep.
My previous post on value billing illustrated that billing software projects by the hour hurts productivity. In this post, I’ll take it one step further by arguing that hourly billing hurts the project itself.
In my previous post on value billing, I explained how I first came to realize that billing for software projects by the hour was fundamentally flawed. In this post, I reveal a paradox which I hope will help illustrate my point.