Time, Cost or Quality?

Fight the early battles to win the great victory
With pressure on time and cost reduction, it is, unfortunately, the third constant, quality, that can be sacrificed. One of the unending and difficult tasks for the web project manager is to fight for the time and money needed to do a good job. One thing that experience teaches you is that history will only judge you by your end product, and will forget the journey you had to go through to get there. E-business is, despite the hype, a performance-rated business like any other. Bear in mind that you will be judged, fairly or unfairly, by the results of the final site. Fight hard in early time and cost battles to gain the best chance of succeeding with the final quality of the product. Ironically, only by producing quality work will you be in a position to demand more money and set schedules.

Ashley Friedlein, Web Project Management