For benchmarking and market analysis, would you donate samples of your real-world website proposals?

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Posted by sime on July 7, 2006 at 1:39am
Yes, everything except information that identifies my customer.
64% (7 votes)
Yes, but no quotes (ie. no dollar amounts)
18% (2 votes)
No, this information is too sensitive
0% (0 votes)
No, this is a ridiculous idea with no value
0% (0 votes)
No, for various reasons.
18% (2 votes)
Total votes: 11

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the idea is...

Posted by sime on July 7, 2006 at 1:45am
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There is much discussion in this group about being able to measure drupal consulting, how to standardize, benchmark, measure it. The above poll is designed to see how feasible it is to share information.

For sake of argument, a hypothetical way this might work: I propose a site to a client, and then I strip all sensitive info out of my proposal and I submit it along with information about whether the quote was successful and then later down the track I report on the outcome.

Note: I am aware that there are anti-collusion laws, or something, in the US so just tick option two if you think this effects you. :-)

thanks!

Posted by sime on July 13, 2006 at 7:13am
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Cheers to all who have left their vote. It is good to see general support for this concept which is a pretty important component of the grand visions we have.

I have a proposal ready to de-identify and submit as soon as there is the right infrastructure. I plan to track hours quite closely and follow-up afterwards with a customer review. It would be great to have a node that has certain sections that can be edited and added to over time... only pondering :-)

looking forward to see what

Posted by finch on July 13, 2006 at 10:32pm
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looking forward to see what you have, w.r.t. infrastructure are you talking about the place to post those client proposals?

are you talking about the

Posted by sime on July 14, 2006 at 12:34am
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are you talking about the place to post those client proposals?

Yes, that is what I mean. Infrastructure (ie. a website) so that people can add their own case-studies, add meta-data and share the information.

But by the sounds of it, there is higher level planning to be done first...

well, I think we can do this

Posted by finch on July 14, 2006 at 2:12am
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well, I think we can do this in couple ways:

  • We can first use this current drupal group to create a thread or multiple threads as "parking lot" for future site content. The client proposal seems to be the identified and ready to contribute item, so there is no reason to prolong sharing that.
  • or, as mentioned we will be happy to provide the hosting then worry about all the operations stuff later. Setting up a site for posting simple content does not take much effort so we can do that as well.

let me know if you prefer the 2nd choice.

2nd choice

Posted by sime on July 14, 2006 at 3:04am
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I'm not comfortable putting it here, I don't really want people stumbling over it without understanding "why am I here".

So, pencil in the 2nd choice, I can also offer some resources while the traffic is light. We should discuss this further at the first meeting.

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