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Flat Rate vs. Hourly: A Guide For Agencies

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For example, a web development agency charges $8000 for a website. This is typically done based on calculating how long it will take to complete the project in hours and then multiplying that by your hourly rate. For example, a website development agency may charge $120 per hour for a website build instead of a flat fee of $8000.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Numerical anchors and their strong effects on software development effort estimates,” Erik Løhrea, and Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo.

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Software Estimating Resources

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This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?