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Are you the owner of a Drupal site in development or recently delivered?

May I begin to help you build knowledge capital out of the investment you have undertaken?

We can think of the process of working together in website development as action learning.

We always ask a series of questions of ourselves and of the people who work for us:

What do we want? How much will it cost? When will it be ready? Why has some of that gone wrong? How can we fix it? Should we change track or continue on?

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Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential. - Agile Manifesto

The beginning - The Agile Manifesto

Research indicates that the average software project is 45% over budget, delayed by 63% and missing 1/3 of the promised functionality.

Agile development practices can reduce those risks.

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"Inattention obscures, attention clarifies." ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Project management, Drupal development, Customer support.

All of these passengers ride on top of the tiger named: 'Attention to Detail'.

Studio Also: Attending to Drupal Detailing since 2005.

No robots in this studio! (yet)

"Where I really value your input is in the added value you give with the quality of your thinking as you do things - you aren’t a programmer/robot."

Project manager of an eLearning system we developed recently. Feedback received 20/7/10

My Drupal work

My work is mainly customisation and repairs to existing Drupal sites.

I maintain a number of sites on an ongoing basis.

I build new sites.

Your vision for your Drupal site

You have a vision. You wish to build a Drupal site that will look like {enter your desired look-and-feel} and be able to {enter your desired functionality}.

Or you have a Drupal site already. You wish to alter the look-and-feel, &/or you wish to extend the site to do x, y &/or z.

I can help you turn that vision into reality.

This site has been top of the google list (Australian version) for the keyword 'drupal' for a long time.

Improving this site's Google prominence - Drupal SEO related keywords

I want to help people needing Drupal SEO find this site; and find my phone number - here it is: 03 5968 1541. Perhaps I can help you.

I'm now interested in how I can optimise the site so that it comes up higher for the keyword pair 'drupal seo'.

With a bit of twiddling over the last few days I got it up to number 7 on the front page of google.com.au.

What is an estimate?

An estimate is just that - an intelligent guess based on a problem description provided by you and some investigation provided by me. The more accurate your problem description the more 'on target' will be my investigation and thus the more easy it will be to make the estimation.

Packt publishing have just released a new book on Drupal 6, titled 'Drupal 6 Social Networking'. They sent me the following article:

Drupal 6 Social Networking: Communicating with Users

Our users can communicate with one another, which is great, but quite often as an administrator the need may arise for us to communicate with a user or users on our site. It may be to remind them about the web site or to inform active users about new changes to the site, which they may not have been made aware of.

I'm currently very interested in people's experiences with 'estimation-blowout'. I posted the following to the Drupal Consultants mailing list and considerable discussion resulted.

For those interested here are links to the discussion thread as it developed in February and March, 2009

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