Yea or Nay on the Billable Hour
The billable-hour poll results are in, and they look like this:
What I find surprising about this is how few people seem to resist (or admit to resisting, anyway) the demise of the billable hour—only 8%.
On the other hand, two of the responses are fairly similar ("commodity work" and "for clients who insist"), together making up 63% of respondents who basically feel that the billable hour will remain intact for all practical purposes.
I plan to update this post in 20 years.
http://www.bmacewen.com/blog/archives/2005/10/yea_or_nay_on_t.html
