As a web dev consultant, I’ve been having a lot of intro conversations.
One big question I ask all of them is “What’s your budget?”. As you might expect, this is also one of the hardest questions to get answered.
In one such conversation, I got the idea to compare a software development budget to a real estate budget to convey its importance and it worked surprisingly well.
So well, in fact, that I’ve started using it all the time and led to writing this post
https://stevenwoodson.com/blog/why-budgets-are-so-important-for-software-development-projects/
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What do you think, do you agree that having a budget defined is a critical first step? If not, what would you replace it with?
If you wrote something on this topic please do share, I'd love to read it!
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@stevenwoodson I like the analogy! And that talking about budget is crucial. What I think is hard for a cloent is understanding what a budget can buy you: how do you relate the „tent to luxury house range“ to a software equivalent?