I have developed and refined a working process that ensures every project moves from idea to implementation smoothly and efficiently.
Your first point of contact with me will usually be via a RFQ (Request For Quote) which you usually complete online. Once I’ve reviewed your RFQ form, we will spend an hour or so either face to face or on the phone (depending on geography) to discuss your project, budget and ideas along with your options for deployment. The objective of this discussion is for me to understand your business and your initial goals for the project, to enable me to produce a project estimate.
The estimate is just that, an estimate. The next stage is to conduct a Needs Analysis, which consists one day’s elapsed time, billable at my standard daily rate (currently £400) – we spend around half a day together at your offices where I will interview at least one representative from each “department” within your business. We will define the goals and end point of your project and discuss your expectations with regard to the user interface. We examine the information that needs to be captured at each part of your operations process, the decisions that needs to be made, how these decisions are made & who by and discuss whether and how they should be automated in order to improve consistency and reduce reliance on individuals.
The outcome of this session is a needs analysis report and a final fixed cost estimate. In most cases, the fixed cost estimate doesn’t vary by more than 5-10%. At this stage you have two choices. Continue with the project or walk away. If you choose to walk away from the project, the needs analysis report is yours to keep.
Once the project is under way, we continue as follows:
- Contract Signed
- Project Specification
- Build & Interface Design
- Test & Debug
- Implementation & Deployment
- – Sever Setup
- – FileMaker Pro Installation
- – Plugin Installation
- Training & Handover
- Support
- Future Development / Enhancements
To discuss your FileMaker project, please get in touch.
