Comments on: Naked CEO series: Clients love to beat you up on QA and PM http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2007/04/30/naked-ceo-series-clients-love-to-beat-you-up-on-qa-and-pm/ Share what you know, Learn what you don't. This is the evolution of one Afrikan. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:39:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Malcolm http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2007/04/30/naked-ceo-series-clients-love-to-beat-you-up-on-qa-and-pm/#comment-81364 Malcolm Fri, 18 May 2007 09:30:47 +0000 http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2007/04/30/naked-ceo-series-clients-love-to-beat-you-up-on-qa-and-pm/#comment-81364 The percentages for QA and PM that you are talking about seem pretty high (sounding like a client here!). I guess that a lot of it has to do with the size of the projects that you are dealing with - the longer the projects the smaller the total percentage of time for QA and PM (although obviously the actual amount of time increases). In my experience this also has a lot to do with the type of project - if you are building a website then your PM goes through the roof because every client (and quite often every individual in the client organization) has a viewpoint that is supposed to be incorporated. As someone (actually a client of mine) once said: "Building a website is like a religious experience - everyone has an opinion that they feel very strongly about". The percentages for QA and PM that you are talking about seem pretty high (sounding like a client here!). I guess that a lot of it has to do with the size of the projects that you are dealing with - the longer the projects the smaller the total percentage of time for QA and PM (although obviously the actual amount of time increases).

In my experience this also has a lot to do with the type of project - if you are building a website then your PM goes through the roof because every client (and quite often every individual in the client organization) has a viewpoint that is supposed to be incorporated. As someone (actually a client of mine) once said: “Building a website is like a religious experience - everyone has an opinion that they feel very strongly about”.

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