At {radiate} we do quite a bit of custom development (most of the times with WordPress as the core), even though our focus tends to be more on the design aspects of any project. So our project workflow basically compromises of us spending quite a bit of time doing multiple revisions / iterations of the design mockups (until the client is satisfied), before we move onto development.
So at this stage, we’re in the process of building a niche (mini) social network for a client (using WordPress, bbPress and a lot of custom functionality we’ll be building onto this) and we’d spend the last 5 / 6 weeks doing mockups for the project. Now, in my mind we would’ve loved to establish the design framework, style & branding of the site before moving onto development, as that is more time / cost efficient for us - but the client has now requested us to move onto development instead (and thus not do multiple iterations for the mockups), since they’d like to get down ‘n dirty with the design and get a feel for it by using it. So this is agile development then: develop & design on the go.
Now, my only concern in this regard is: who is responsible for the costs associated with the duplicated time / tasks associated with this process? Read More
