Comments on: 5 Stages of project management

By: edna o. quarcoo

edna o. quarcoo — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:33:23 +0000

hi’, i will be very glad if you can help me with the reasons why projects must go through these five stages

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How to write a successful brief — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:14:49 +0000

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By: Alin Ivana

Alin Ivana — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:40:56 +0000

In my contract I have a clause that says the priced in the contract is not accurate and that it can vary by 30% in these conditions, the clients modifies the strategy (future development) that means an increase of at most 30%, if the client doesn’t want a part of the strategy (like SEO) it can be lowered at maximum of 30% eather way these are the terms, I’m trying always to give my clients a discount of 10% on that price if they give feedback rapidly, or make the payments earlier than the contracts states, but these are long shots in small firms.

By: Glenn Reffin

Glenn Reffin — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:34:00 +0000

Alin

I would be interested to hear how you approach such clients to request payment for the additional time? Or is it one of those things that you put down to a loss?

Many thanks for the comment, really good to hear things can go wrong the world over!

By: Alin Ivana

Alin Ivana — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:18:13 +0000

Love the post.
In other countries (like I don’t know, Romania ) )you get through stage 2, have the agreement on the final mock-up, make a contract with the mock-up attached and the strategy firmed, then you get to step 4 and then… the client brings you back to step 1:
“I don’t like the colors” or “it’s not animated enough”
so you go again in to a brief and try to explain that the price was made from the mock-up, that you have to rebuild everything from almost scratch, and so on, this happens for about 2 weeks, and then.. he says, ah it costs more? let’s leave it like you said, you’re the designer

But 2 weeks gone wasted because they still can’t get the main idea, maybe is me, who knows?

Okay this happens with small firms who like to think they are your only clients and you need to build a statue for them.
With big companies you don’t get to step 3 unless the mock-up is perfect witch I think is the best way.

Anyway, keep up the good posts.