Have any of you who work as a freelance programmer managed to get off the hours-based billing treadmill, and onto a value-based system? How do you determine value? When your clients need constant maintenance or small incremental work, do you end up spending a lot of time with estimates?
Have any of you who work as a freelance programmer managed to get off the hours-based billing treadmill, and onto a value-based system? How do you determine value? When your clients need constant maintenance or small incremental work, do you end up spending a lot of time with estimates?
I'm really struggling with this in my own work.