http://manicmouse.com/avoiding-the-perfectionist-death-spiral/ By Ben Callahan, on making websites. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:22:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://manicmouse.com/avoiding-the-perfectionist-death-spiral/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Tracking Project Hours/Deadlines - workblog Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:18:05 +0000 http://manicmouse.com/?p=172#comment-26 [...] Tracking Project Hours/Deadlines Dec.10, 2009 in Work Lately I’ve been trying to work out a good process for quoting projects and tracking the billable hours and deadlines. I’ve a couple large projects go over budget/deadline, and I think two of the main reasons are that I wasn’t realistic enough in the quote, and that I just wasn’t being intentional about monitoring the progress. My natural tendency is is to leave all the “business” stuff to my boss and just focus on doing my core job right, I need to take those things into account because how I do my job has a direct impact on whether or not the ultimate project goals are met. With my anal-retentiveness I can spend 3 hours on something that could be done the “wrong” way in 30 minutes. [...] [...] Tracking Project Hours/Deadlines Dec.10, 2009 in Work Lately I’ve been trying to work out a good process for quoting projects and tracking the billable hours and deadlines. I’ve a couple large projects go over budget/deadline, and I think two of the main reasons are that I wasn’t realistic enough in the quote, and that I just wasn’t being intentional about monitoring the progress. My natural tendency is is to leave all the “business” stuff to my boss and just focus on doing my core job right, I need to take those things into account because how I do my job has a direct impact on whether or not the ultimate project goals are met. With my anal-retentiveness I can spend 3 hours on something that could be done the “wrong” way in 30 minutes. [...]

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