Re: FN-FORUM Contracts

date posted 21st March 2000 13:33

Wow. No planning? It's more like continuous planning... never stop, never be
afraid to throw away yesterday's plan, but never stop planning. To work
without planning is to accept an amount of reworking which probably will
bring the whole venture to its knees, quite apart from quickly creating an
unmaintainable site.

Evolved sites work when they're simple, really simple. However, as soon as
there's an underlying database or two, transaction processing, some .com or
xml elements, and some embedding (into your client's stock control system,
for instance), then evolution is a complete no-no. It may look like
evolution, but it it's planned, tested, reviewed, modified, tested, then
tested again before it arrives on the public scene.

Clients generally expect the site manager to be responsive, to probe new
areas, all that and more, as Peter says. But you'll not get away without
planning.

The contract issue that's been running here is different. I don't work
without a contract. But the client may not recognise my letter as a
contract, as it simply describes what's been asked for, how I'll go about
delivering it, and how it's to be paid for. This has nothing to do with the
creation of a site, but everything to do with having a bit of paper to go to
the court with when no money turns up. That's for small jobs. Right now I
have a contract here for just over GBP100k: it's four pages long, and there
are four design schedules attached. Something like this has to be handled by
a legal pro.

Tony


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Small [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED]
Date: 21 March 2000 12:11
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Contracts


>An interesting resource. But, is all this planning and contract stuff the
>right approach for e-commerce projects?
>
>The reason I ask is because the book I'm working on is saying that it is
>impossible to pre plan an e-business because there is too much continuous
>change (technology and competition). Instead of planning a solution they
>should be grown.
>
>Is anyone working with clients that take this attitude: allowing developers
>to develop a site as a response to feedback and results, continuously
>experimenting and probing into new areas?
>
>I'd like to have an example for my book.
>
>peter
>http://www.avatarnets.com
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>
>>About.com, now added to Freelancers.net resources >> legal ;-)
>>
>>http://webdesign.about.com/compute/webdesign/msubcontracts.htm
>>
>>Cheers
>>Dan
>>
>>Peter McCormack wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, I received no reply's to my message, I would really like
>>> some help in writing a standard contract that would be between
>>> myself and my clients. I have no legal expertise and would therefore
>>
>>> not want to write it myself. Does anyone have a standard contract
>>> that I could use, any help would be really appreciated.Peter
>>> McCormack
>>
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