One of the best moves we’ve made for our consulting and services teams is to “productive” the work. What does that mean? That means that instead of quoting project work as a “bucket of hours” (e.g. 100 hours at $200/hour for $20,000) you have different “products” available like a Professional Quick Start Package that gets a client up and running, or a Newsroom Package that delivers a certain number of templates, pages, workflows, etc.
Productizing the services work aligns interests from both the client and vendor to focus on the benefit and outcome of the work — not how long it takes. This took a long time to realize, and we’re not completely away from quoting hours of work for certain projects, but the majority of consulting work around a product should be productized.
David Cummings on Startups 
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