Questions tagged [clients]
The clients tag is used for questions about how to work effectively with clients, how to solve problems with clients, how to select good clients. The tag is not limited to just these categories. As long as the question is about a real problem faced with a client, use this tag.
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Get enough information from client to start project
I am trying to create a form that request for information from a prospective client, this form will have to work for all kinds of industry (business, construction, design, programming...).
In most ...
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Good idea for a client to also be the project manager?
A while ago I took on a freelance web programming project with a company I'm already familiar with. My boss (also the company owner) typically pairs me with one of his PM employees for each project I ...
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What method to use to inform customer about sub-contractor/freelance workers?
When customer requires list of technical staff that will be involved in the project;
What is the proper method to give the info of the sub-contractors/freelance workers that will be involved in ...
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How to cope with a client expecting compensation for mistake your team made?
Our team made a mistake in software code and that caused the customer lose a lot of money. Now they ask us for that amount to give them back as compensation.
How to deal with that?
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How to decide to take a project when it's depending on a tool your team doesn't know?
It happened to me recently, I'm kinda newbie on PMing, so I ask this to an experienced community.
A potential client contacted me through the guy (intermediary) who offered the job to me. But to ...
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Who writes the test cases for your client when it's time for Client Acceptance Testing?
This question has recently come up at my organization. When it's time for the client to review and accept either a large ecommerce implementation or a smaller feature enhancement, will your QA team ...
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Questions to ask to the client before making any cms for them?
I need a comprehensive list of questions or at least basic idea of which questions to be asked to the client before customizing a cms for them?
I may use Wordpress, Drupal, Sharepoint or anything, I ...
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Client has hard time focusing
I had a hard time trying to get the client to focus. X likes to talk a lot. Sometimes give too much information.
Sometimes X talks x-self into circles and i forget what the question is.
I try my ...
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How to Measure The Price of The Project?
We are working on the project (IT), but we were puzzled to price project. Does anyone can explain, about what it takes as a consideration in determining the price of a project?
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No free people to work on time&material type of contract
A small company signed time&material type of contract with client A which basically guarantee that 3 people would work on project for the client. The cooperation lasts a few quarters already and ...
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Clients do not respond. How to manage that?
I am currently a Project Manager at web development company working on always more than one project (rarely big project for more than 3 months and most often small project up to 1 month). As we open ...
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Can metaphors in popular culture help with explaining agile or waterfall to clients?
After reading this blog post that suggests that the Death Star was an agile project I was wondering if using metaphors is a good way of describing methodologies in a slightly fun way.
'Movie x ...
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How do you convince a client to use Agile Methods?
Here's the thing: In agile, client has very important role to fulfill - if they aren't involved, agile loses much of its value.
How do you convince clients to change the way they run projects, ...