Palante Tech Blog

look at other similar projects, how long those took, what problems you ran into on those hourly estimates, number of days write out a narrative of the expected timeline add a lot of padding to initial estimates your estimate builds your client's expectations; don't inflate them artificially if you're really honest, some clients might come back and say no; have to accept that possibility if you do a high-end hourly estimate, you might come in under budget and the client might get a better deal