General Consultant Discussion

Does anyone have a change request form they'd be willing to share?

I just sent you an ROR. Please don't use it against me.............................

That was funny @JeffSchwenk - needed that this particular Friday. No disrespect meant to you @ThereseLogeais - I think I have a form you might use. Here's a start, its from Ed's academy.

Thanks @JeffSchwenk for the ROR form (no, I'm not stealing any of your clients!) but I was really looking for the change request form like the one @MoiraGoggin offered. I also received one from @PamScott very similar to hers. You know, the whole fixed price thing - what to do when the project's scope changes... And thanks!

Would you be able to pdf that @MoiraGoggin . I've been pretty casual in my change requests -- and find that the biggest issue is that with customers that you have MANY requests that you somehow number/track them. This is especially true for larger complex reports where all changes might apply to the same report.

PS - I invoice everything out of Freshbooks so my change requests are what Freshbooks calls a Quote - it goes out via an email link. Customer clicks to accept. I have found that to be a really good way to ensure more than a verbal ""ok go ahead"".. FWIW

We bid each Change Request as a project with three options so the client has choices of delivery options when it is presented (as opposed to simply ""let's do it"" or ""sorry, not interested"").

Gotta love this one....

When were you on the lake with Shaver?

@WayneSchulz - you asked for the PDF version of the Change Request....we'll here's a .doc version so you can change what you want. This was from Ed Kless's class.

@ThereseLogeais that picture made me think of the Atlas project for some reason.

@GeneUlrich & @ThereseLogeais - love the name of the dingy.

Wow, Excellent. I missed that completely..................

I showed the picture to my son who is trying to be a developer and he sort of got the joke. I showed it to his friend who just graduated from the University of Washington Foster School of Business and he had never heard of a change order. Simply amazing.

The picture is from either Ron Baker or Ed Kless. It was in the slide deck from the FOTF symposium in April.