There’s a general consensus that web design contracts with clients are a good thing. Unlike many other services, web designers depend on their customers’ input to complete their work. Traditionally, web designers have submitted a contract along with a proposal of work. It sets out the end deliverable and the responsibilities on either side. The…

One of the benefits of moving to an Agile approach, for me, has been the confidence it’s given me with pricing projects. That might sound paradoxical as Agile is about letting the process determine the cost, rather than fixing them upfront. But, that does not mean we have to be suspiciously vague or evasive when…

For this first post on getting clients I’m revisiting one of my favourite books. It’s a long time bestseller, we based a series around, on the WP Builds podcast. It’s called Watertight Marketing. Amazingly, you can now grab it for free thanks to the outstanding generosity of its author Bryony Thomas. Here, I will be…

Recently, on the WP Builds Podcast, we put out a discussion called “Realistically defining our business model”. It was the first in our Business Bootcamp series where we’re relearning everything we know about building sites and running a design business. For contrast Nathan (the host) agreed to take the role of representing a traditional approach…

In the last video I talked about agile and how it is a mindset and a reaction to the problems of traditional project management. Here, we are looking at Scrum, which is a lightweight framework for implementing agile. It was created by two of the authors of the Agile manifesto (Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber)…

Google “agile” and you’ll likely be overwhelmed with jargon, acronyms and hype. It’s become big business. Systems are selling like hotcakes to eager companies wanting to “go agile”. And who wouldn’t? Agile seems to be the magic fuel that’s been rocketing the new cool multi-billion tech companies into affinity and beyond!   Healthy scepticism One…