"I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page... and got away with it" - It's not just clueless clients but also often the bureaucracy within big corporates
Interesting story at the linked article and although the quote was reasonable the corporate bureaucracy and time wasting ends up costing that much. I've seen this horrific wastage myself before and its often due to the roleplayers having no clue what static webpages generally cost, and then also not realising what their internal paperwork adds on top of the actual cost. All this just gets lost in the multi-step internal "processing".
We recently saw a South African government agency paying around R95,000pm (about US$6,581) for their web hosting, all due to the network bandwidth being exceeded and the extra costs inflating by 900% which no-one noticed. After it being pointed out a re-negotiation quickly dropped the cost (but taxpayers and services to citizens lost out in the process). There is always a cost borne for wastage either by consumers, shareholders or taxpayers.
See idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars…
#technology #costsavings #wastage
source https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-175c-e132-b450-118986788732
We recently saw a South African government agency paying around R95,000pm (about US$6,581) for their web hosting, all due to the network bandwidth being exceeded and the extra costs inflating by 900% which no-one noticed. After it being pointed out a re-negotiation quickly dropped the cost (but taxpayers and services to citizens lost out in the process). There is always a cost borne for wastage either by consumers, shareholders or taxpayers.
See idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars…
#technology #costsavings #wastage
source https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-175c-e132-b450-118986788732
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