[yurishimo]

How do you handle deployments on those "40" hour projects? I understand that you provide that much value, but it the client thinks they are paying for hours, even if not directly, seeing a contractor push code in 2 hours and then bill me for 40 has to hurt a bit.

Obviously if your estimate is devoid of any hourly numbers, this conversation is moot.

[emp_]

Those are closed price projects, they do use hours for reports and all but its really a fixed payout for a fixed amount of features.