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their engineers, one of the most often mentioned and least favorite tasks
is the maintenance and troubleshooting of legacy software. You'd
rather not spend any energy on it, but you must since there are most
likely some key customers still using it. Your engineers probably
also prefer to be working on newer generation products and view this
maintenance work as a necessary chore. This is where TetherMedia can
help. We have several maintenance
plans providing you with the choice of fixed-fee annual
maintenance contracts or pay as you go. Because software maintenance
is our core business, you'll find our prices to
be highly competitive, even compared to performing the work
internally.
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Maintenance page
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As a client, time and
materials contracts create an intrinsic conflict of interest between you
and the consulting firm. Whereas you'd like to see the work
completed on-time and on-budget, unfortunately, the consulting firm may not, since
completion of project also implies end of payments, and there are always
the myriad justifications for the delays. In fixed-fee projects, consulting firm has
all the
incentives to complete the project on-time since it frees up the
resources for additional projects.
Additional reasons why many consulting firms prefer not
to work on Fixed-Fee basis:
- Fixed-Fee requires broad and deep understanding in
the target subject in order to generate accurate proposals
- Fixed-Fee requires excellent understanding of
development methodology and interdependencies among the various phases
- Fixed-Fee requires highly experienced and ultra-tight
project management
- Fixed-Fee requires experience and confidence derived
only from years of delivering high quality projects on-time and
on-budget
In sum, Fixed-Fee custom development is
non-trivial. Gross over-estimation will lead to loss of business and
under-estimation leads to going-out-of-business. For over ten years,
TetherMedia has provided exclusively, Fixed-Fee engagements, and has delighted
many of our customers with an unsurpassed record of on-schedule and
on-budget deliveries.
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development page
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what some customers are saying about TetherMedia
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free quote.
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