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In my experience only incompetent managers ask you to account for your hours for anything other than hourly billed client work. The best projects I've worked o
by CyberFonic 10y ago
In my experience only incompetent managers ask you to account for your hours for anything other than hourly billed client work.
The best projects I've worked on had:
* A manager who was technically literate.
* The tasks were documented and specified clearly.
* The project plan was prepared by a knowledgeable planner and thus realistic.
* Our weekly progress meeting focused on addressing the delay causing stumbling blocks.
My days as an employee are over. As a consultant, I bill for the completion of specific deliverables. I simply decline business from potential clients who demand an hourly rate. I just can't be bothered doing time-sheets and justifying why something took more time than planned. Occasionally I do underestimate the amount of effort a deliverable requires. That's the cost of doing business on my terms.
- a3n 10y ago> In my experience only incompetent managers ask you to account for your hours for anything other than hourly billed client work. And the government. We recently started selling to the government, and now we have to report our tasks and hours. Every two weeks has to have at least 80 explainable hours.
- mswen 10y agoI have recently got involved with a client building a reporting web app on top of legacy applications. I ended up telling them that there were too many uncertainties and we would need to do this on an hourly rate. Just about wrapped up but still not clear to me whether that was a better but it did protect me when I ran into messy error prone data in the source systems.
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoThis would be the best place any of us had worked. Considering the audience for HN has not only developers, etc. but also management/entrepreneurs, it would be handy for lists like this to be compiled from Ask HN comments so that they could reference it and try to be better managers.