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Plan client apps with fewer surprises

Practical guides for agencies and freelancers who plan apps for clients: scoping, specifications and estimates.

  • How to scope an app project with a client

    A practical process for agencies: turn a client’s app idea into an agreed scope (users, flows, gaps, a specification and an estimate) before the quote is signed.

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  • What a software specification should contain: a checklist for agencies

    A checklist of what a specification for a client app should cover (screens, behaviour, data, server operations, quality requirements and open questions), so developers can build without guessing.

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  • How to estimate an app project for a client

    How to build an app development estimate your client can follow: estimate from the specification, show what drives the number, state the assumptions and set the price separately.

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  • Why an app is always bigger than its brief

    A client brief almost always describes only the main path of the app. One short brief, taken apart: the roles, states and screens it leaves out, why they get forgotten, and how to find them before the quote.

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  • How a brochure site grew into a page editor

    The estimate was three months, and it took half a year. The story of a project in which a simple brochure site gradually became a tool for putting pages together, and the question that should have been asked at the very start.

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  • What an app quote pays for before the first line of code

    A detailed quote can look expensive next to a tool that builds an app in an afternoon. Most of what it pays for happens before anyone writes code, and almost none of it shows on the finished screens.

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