I’m in the process of figuring out the best way to estimate time and cost on a proposal for an agile project. It’s always a tricky thing. Agile, by nature, is constantly embracing change and harnessing it for the good of the product and the client. So how do you communicate when it will be done or for that matter estimate how much it will cost?

Given the rage over XML and web services over the past decade or so, I was shocked at how common it is to still exchange data using a fixed-width file format over FTP. I guess it’s all about those mainframes and backward compatibility, but “WOW”.