The Small Business IT Consultant (SBITC) is available on your schedule to join you in your office to discuss your short or long-term needs.
Our first consultation is FREE!
This meeting will be of your choosing - you set the day and time to mimimize any disruption in your office routine.
After the initial discussion and you wish to engage our services, we will setup a meeting with your management personnel to discuss your needs in greater detail.
Generally, this meeting can be accomplished in from 15 minutes to one hour, unless there is significant complexity in your desired objectives. In that situation, additional meetings may be required.
Smaller project are classified as relatively non-complex tasks such as creating an Excel spreadsheet or a Powerpoint presentation.
To ensure that you will receive the project or product in precise compliance with the requirements you have defined to SBITC, for smaller projects or tasks we will immediately provide a one page summary of the task at hand including the following:
A description and objectives of the task.
The schedule for delivering the prototype and final product.
Your management personnel who will participate in & approve product development.
The estimated costs (low, medium and high).
A payment schedule.
For more complex projects, after joint SBITC/customer meetings have clearly defined the scope of the project, SBITC will prepare a Statement of Work (SOW) detailing the task(s) at hand, schedule for delivery and range of estimated costs. SBITC provides 3 levels of estimates: low, medium and high so you fully understand your potential minimum and maximum exposure.
The SOW consists of the following components:
Executive summary of the proposed project.
Any assumptions or constraints that apply.
Detailed definition of the task(s).
SBITC team members who will participate in the project and their rate.
Schedule for development, customer testing and delivery.
Payment schedule.
Customer's acceptance and authorization.
Status Report
SBITC will provide a weekly status report detailing progress on the project including status of project development, any schedule slippages (and the reasons why), and any deviations from estimated costs.