Price the work

Price the work syllabus

The commercial half of building things. Not how to get rich; how to quote a job without discovering six weeks in that you priced it below what it costs to run.

Module 0 — Scope and cost

Free. The two documents that decide whether the job is worth taking.

  1. Write down what you are not doing — A scope is defined by its exclusions. The inclusions are the easy half and everybody writes those. (25 min)
  2. The floor under your price — What the thing costs to keep alive, every month, after you have been paid. (30 min)
  3. The quote, and the walk away — Turning the two documents into a number, and recognising the jobs to decline. (25 min, paid)