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Re:Organizing complexity is the most important skill in soft... by wodenokoto on Monday June 22, 2015 @12:23PM (#9759375)
Billing by the hour is basically just telling people how much effort you expect the task to require smoothed by how valuable it is to you. If you can do it quicker, I say bill the full amount of time and if they have extra inquiries, fit it into the buffer zone.
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Re:Organizing complexity is the most important skill in soft... by moron4hire on Monday June 22, 2015 @12:36PM (#9759462)
For one of my current clients, I still bill only the time I actually work. It's a long-term project with no explicit end-date. I'm trying to get out of, I want to do shorter-term projects now, but while I'm here, they've hired me for the fact that I can crush out code and make things better than their own employees. They didn't buy a specific thing, they buy my expertise.

It means I'm not making as much as I could be, but it's not their fault I agreed to the arrangement 3 years ago.

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