Fair p(l)ay: Time and material pricing in software development
The other day I came across a tweet by Los Angeles-based video director Davy Greenberg. It said: “If I do a job in 30 minutes it’s because I spent 10 years learning how to do that in 30 minutes. You owe me for the years, not the minutes.” It got me thinking. How and...
A bugging question: who should pay for bug fixing?
In my last post, I shared my thoughts about how bugs in a software are different and how they need to be handled based on their type. No project that involves developing software is ever plain sailing, am I right? Grossly underestimated budgets, poorly defined scopes,...
Are all bugs equally important in a product?
Is there anything more annoying than waiting for what seems like an eternity for Spotify to open because your computer is running slow? Well, imagine hundreds of flights delayed or canceled due to a memory shortage in a $2.4 billion air traffic control system, and...
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