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Re:5 reasons why hourly rate is better than fixed price by filozynka on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @09:51AM (#6019476)
When you are developing the project further how would you like to value adding new functionalities to the project using the value based pricing model?
Re:5 reasons why hourly rate is better than fixed price by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @10:09AM (#6019644)
How much value does the new feature bring to the client ?

Easy one: increase their conversion rate for google searches of keyword "blue widget" (ie google -> landing page -> credit card charged) by 5%. YOu just made them 5% of their annual turnover. Charge them a lot

Harder one: (Anything away from sales is always going to be harder to measure) Implement a simple custoemr support online chat featuire (you know the kind) - allows their support to deal with >1 person at a time, and reduces the "waiting" queue on the phone system to zero. Value? Dunno. Feel around by talking to the VP of customer service or make a judgement call like "not having to hire another five custoemr service people"

Re:5 reasons why hourly rate is better than fixed price by iktorn on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @10:20AM (#6019757)
This makes sense when you have a well established business that's tweaking it's processes. Impossible when building an MVP and/or experimenting.