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    "title": "20 Rules of Software Consulting",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Ask Not What's Possible:</strong> the question is not what you can do, the question is how much the client is willing to pay for it and how long they will wait.</p>\n<p><strong>Time Substitutes for Money on a Logarithmic Scale:</strong> e.g cutting the time by 20% will require doubling the budget. Cutting the budget by 30% will quadruple the amount of time.</p>\n<p><strong>All Estimates are Optimistic:</strong> new application development will take three times as long as you expect, and cost twice as much. Or vice-versa.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>(Emphasis in original.) Via <a href=\"http://www.databasesoup.com/2013/03/20-rules-of-software-consulting.html?m=1\">Database Soup: 20 Rules of Software Consulting</a>.</p>\n"
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