[pawelwentpawel]

Great post!

I would just add - keep a library of your own design/code snippets. Developing my own CMS system made my work a lot faster on a long run.

I also always explain to my non-tech clients what technology are we using and why some things take more time than other ones. It makes the communication easier, they learn something on the way and during our next project together I can always refer to it - You know, just like last time, if you want to completely reshape structure of the database, it might take a few minutes.