Project Management

Jan 31st, 2007

Scheduling Projects

It’s easy to overlook the importance of budgeting your time because it seems so simple. You feel like you instinctively know whether or not you have enough time to do a project this week, this month, or at all. In the beginning as your practice is growing, you’ll almost always be right. Sometimes you may [...]

Oct 4th, 2006

Estimating the Time a Project Will Take

I went back and read the post I wrote on pricing your web design service and realized that I made a pretty big assumption with it. I assumed that every freelancer looks at a list of requirements for a project and can instantly predict the amount of time it will take to complete the project [...]

Sep 13th, 2006

Time Management (Like Everything Else) Is Different For Freelancers

One of the many contributions that Stephen Covey has made to modern society’s corporate culture is the time management matrix. As shown in the example below, it divides the tasks that fill your day into quadrants, allowing you to apply rules about how much time should be spent on each activity. Spending time in quadrant [...]

Jul 17th, 2006

On Scalability: Expect to Grow

During the development of a project, you’ll repeatedly be faced with situations where there are multiple solutions to a problem. One choice is to create a robust answer that is reliable and will adapt well to the changing needs of the customer for the foreseeable future. Another option is a design that addresses the current [...]

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