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An estimate is usually treated as a price. It is also the document that settles every later argument about scope, and a few sentences do nearly all of that work.
Fritz Delacroix5 min with a cup
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A tarp goes on in August and is still there in November, and the reasons have more to do with how the work was sold than with how it was done.
Fritz Delacroix5 min with a cup
A shop that cannot say what it has to bill in a week to cover its costs is making every other decision without the one number they all depend on.
Fritz Delacroix4 min with a cup
Set out as questions a bookkeeper is asked and answered here in the publication’s own voice, since no individual was interviewed and nothing is quoted.
Fritz Delacroix4 min with a cup
An annual plan and calling somebody when things break are two ways of paying for the same maintenance, and the gap between them is smaller than it appears.
Fritz Delacroix5 min with a cup