Dinamika Services Inc. Business Software Consulting, Design, Implementation, and Training

Fixed Bids vs. Hourly Pricing

We offer both, the fixed bid and the hourly pricing of projects. The obvious advantage of fixed bids is that project costs are known in advance to the client. Fixed bid however is only possible when project requirements are sufficiently documented at the start of the project so we can accurately estimate the required amount of effort. On any project, where the requirements must still be discovered as part of the project, the hourly charging is more appropriate because it eventually leads to a more accurate final bill to the client without having to pay for an (un)necessary protection in a budget. Regardless of these facts, our clients prefer the fixed bid to hourly pricing in the ratio of 10 to 1. In most cases, a project simply needs some upfront work toward more complete requirements, which enables us then to make a fixed bid. Therefore, where applicable, and if fixed cost is preferred, we strongly recommend a combination of some upfront hourly work on business analysis and requirements and a fixed cost project thereafter.

Made in the USA vs. Off-Shore

We are a 100% US based operation and company and we do not off-shore any parts of the project. While we acknowledge that off-shoring can in many situations lead to lower overall price of development, we focus on projects and clients where our being on-shore is an actual advantage to the client and project.

At Dinamika Services Inc. - a complete success is our only option; and to achieve it, we base our software development process on the following core components:

To communicate with our clients as much as needed during, before, and after the project.
To stay inside the committed budget and delivery deadlines as our strongest priorities.
TTo safeguard our clients' trade secrets, data and other intellectual property as we would our own.
To provide highest quality and innovative service at a reasonable price to all our clients.

This means that we specialize in projects where 100% success, security, timeliness, and cost containment are our first priorities. It also means that we need to do everything we can to fully control these ever present risks in managing our projects. Off-shoring to India or other - be honest, usually very far away countries - is by expert consensus a lower cost but higher risk of delivery mode of operation; due not least to a physical and cultural separation of business and technical environments during the entire project. While some clients may tolerate flexible deadlines and budgets - some other don't. We choose to serve the latter. Furthermore, often the high-value intellectual property such as trade secrets, credit card numbers, medical claims records and mortgage applications are part of off-shored IT projects. While the cost savings of such may appear significant, the complexity of cross-border relationships also increases security challenges. When an organization off-shores projects that include valuable intellectual property, you must ask yourself -- how much security risk can we afford? So, to contain these risks and also stay faithful to our chartered development process as outlined above, we do all our work for our US clients exclusively here in the US. We focus on projects and situations where our being fully on-shore is actually an advantage. Therefore expect from us a high quality business product - one that meets all the requirements and is delivered on time and in agreed upon budget, but which did not trade any probability of success for a portion of cost of development. Also expect that your data and intellectual property when working with us will be safe and secure and guarded as if they were our own.