Weeks
Our principal unit-of-work is a week. We like weeks. They are agile. They are long enough to get good things done but short enough to enable meaningful review and progress updates to ensure we are on the right track. We quote most projects in man-weeks (or woman weeks!). Nobody likes to lose a week (especially clients) but weekly cycles ensure that in a worst case, if things are not going as expected, the cost of a mistake or dead-end is minimised.
You can also expect the project to be broken into phases with specific deliverables at various stages for review. We don’t like to ‘disappear’ for extended periods where you have no visibility of progress only to find that we are off-track with days or weeks to go-live. Our aim is that any surprises should be good ones.
