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> I strongly suggest to throw man-days in your cost calculation. Only if those man-days actually incur a marginal cost. If it's just employees you already have
by bigstrat2003 1y ago
> I strongly suggest to throw man-days in your cost calculation.
Only if those man-days actually incur a marginal cost. If it's just employees you already have spending their time on things, then it's not worth factoring in because it's a cost you pay regardless.
- silversmith 1y agoThat's the case if said employees have nothing better to do and are currently twiddling their thumbs. Usually the server maintenance hours come out of project development hours. It's precisely why we moved from a self-hosted demo environment server to heroku - the developers that had both the skills to manage a server and enough seniority to have access accross all the different projects could bring in more by building.
- ygouzerh 1y agoIf they are spending their time fiddling around disk resizing and package upgrades, it's time they are not spending helping deliver real business features. This part can be outsourced to a PaaS company, so that the company engineers can be focused on what is the company actually making money from.