When clients ask me about pricing. If I feel it's right to say with them based on what I know about them I say that I go by the classic business model of you can have GOOD, FAST or CHEAP and the client can only PICK TWO of those. I even say this on my process page of my main site.
I always knew of this concept but I recently discovered a that it has a name and other version of it. It called Project Triangle according to our helpful yet unreliable source of Wikipedia.
There are others project triangles listed here that I think are generally true.
- College: Work, Sleep, Play – Pick two.
- Men: Handsome, High-Earner, Faithful – Pick two.
- Women: Single, Sane, Sexy, Smart – Pick any three. (also called The four S's of dating)
- Operating System: Fast, Efficient, Stable - Choose two.
- Bicycle Parts: Strong, Light, Cheap - Pick any two.
- Opensource Software Development: Speed/Time, Inclusiveness/Openness, Quality
- Schedule, Scope, Resources – Pick two.
- Nation's populace: Ignorant, Free, Civil - Pick two.
What do you think? These are certainly not applicable in all situations but do you go by them even if you don't know what's called?
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