Week 5

How do you plan to use weekly meetings and status reports in your contracting? Please include a sample of the status report you plan to use.

Weekly meetings may not be possibly with my current client, however with others they would be very useful to me. The flow of communication is extremely important in any project. I already have a status report prepared from my Project management course which I believe fits in extremely well here (it's so nice all my courses are finally coming together and making a whole).

Will you use comps in your consulting work? If so, what will you present -- it is a Photoshop file?

Yes I do believe I will create comps, but not with photoshop as i can't afford that!. I own Paint Shop Pro and will create mockups of sites before any coding gets done. That's the easy way of getting a descision without too much hard work on my part :)

How will you create something to enable your client to get a good idea of the final site without actually completing the implementation of the site?

Using Paint Shop Pro a mockup of each page can be created. These can be printed and used to show the structure of the site by layding them out on a table.

What interim deliverables will you have for your contract?

I believe I would use 4 main interim deliverables for my website contract.

  1. a site speicfication defining the purpose and structure.
  2. a mockup of various different designs
  3. a "test" site of the chosen design
  4. the final site ready to be tested and tweaked ready to go live.

What % of total payment will be due at each interim deliverable?

Not sure on this one. I would think about 20%, then the final 20% when the project goes live.

Please create a sample Acceptance Letter

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TBaR LLC
Someplace,
Sometown
State
Zip
Country

Dear Client,

Ref: Contract No. 3828293

I am delighted to accept the contract for the creation of the TBaR Webiste to the specification discussed in our previous meetings.

Enclosed are 2 copies of the final contract. Please sign both copies and return one of the contracts to me by mail. I have enclosed a self-addressed stamped envelope for your convenience.

As detailed in the contract, the work will begin on date and status reports will be completed weekly until completion to the agreed terms.

Thank you for your time and consideration, I look forward to working with you.

Regards,



Marion Cable
Consultant
MC Web Design

Please review the sample Issues List and modify it to meet your requirements

No modification is necessary as it already nearly matches the Issues List I had already created for my Project management.