Five Days of Focus – How to Define your WordPress Project Scope
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Five Days of Focus – How to Define your WordPress Project Scope

This is Day 2 of our Five Days of Focus preparing for 2021 – highlighting Project Management essentials. In our heart of hearts, everyone’s a little bit of a people-pleaser. We love to see the people around our personal and professional lives happy—at least, I do. But this can lead to a slippery slope when it…

Breaking Down the Pre-Proposal Process
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Breaking Down the Pre-Proposal Process

Does practice make perfect? No, not always. But having a solid pre-propoaal process leads to practical, consistent quality in your early client interactions, which spells out good news for your clients, and for you. When you’re meeting with your clients for the first time, it’s important to have a structure that gets both of you…

Why We Use a 2-Step WordPress Project Proposal Approach
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Why We Use a 2-Step WordPress Project Proposal Approach

It is a “given” that all WordPress practitioners will complete an estimate at the beginning of a project.  The problem is, in many cases, the initial estimate is also the final estimate. Estimating should not be a onetime affair.  At WP Roadmaps, our policy is to estimate at the Proposal phase; estimate when the Statement…

New Proposal Section to Control WordPress Project Scope Creep
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New Proposal Section to Control WordPress Project Scope Creep

When creating a Project Proposal or any other place where you are defining the WordPress Project Scope for the client, most WordPress Practitioners will include what is IN scope and what is OUT of scope. But there is a 3rd section that, if included, can help you seriously control Scope Creep even before the project…