Comments on: Giving cost estimates on custom Magento development

By: ManagingEcommerce

ManagingEcommerce — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:27:57 +0000

Great article, however I must say that the customer not caring whether something is hard-coded or implemented properly through different layers of separation of code, design and content might be the case with community edition customers with budget being the #1 priority for them.

But in the long run, having to re-do the hard-coded link every time by a developer would cost any customer more than just having it done in a way to enable non-technologists (http://www.managingecommerce.com/glossary/i-n/n...) to implement further changes. That's not even considering the cost of upgrade conflict resolution, especially in an environment like Enterprise Edition that one MUST upgrade within six months of a new release, since only the past 2 releases are supported, and support is what one pays the $8900 per server instance license fee for.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:39:21 +0000

I have a very similar role as you at my job, and I agree with you 100%.
Magento is an application , unlike any other I have experienced, just based on sheer size alone. Precautions must be taken when doing even the smallest of change, to retain scalability and the core of the application.This often proves difficult to explain to the client.

By: nprforu

nprforu — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:19:28 +0000

Hi Branko,

I am totally agree with this point that client never understand complexity level of magento or they say (hell when hearing) why should they. for same task my client ask me to do it in 15 mins initially.

By: nprforu

nprforu — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:19:28 +0000

Hi Branko,

By: Revue de presse | Simple Entrepreneur

Revue de presse | Simple Entrepreneur — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:17:10 +0000

[...] Giving cost estimates on custom Magento development L’auteur explique que de simples changements, bien que minimes, peuvent avoir un coût significatif lorsque l’on met bout à bout toutes les tâches nécessaires à leur réalisation. Un article qui concerne finalement tous les freelances. [...]