>Hi all,
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>I've been asked to project the number of hours required to complete a project.
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>Is there a method or system that would assist me to project that? I've never done this before.
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>Any help will be greatlly appriciated!

1) Figure out the DBC. How many tables, indexes, relationships, views, etc you are going to need, and estimate how long it will take you to do that part.
2) Screens. How many of these will you need, and how complicated are they?
3) Business rules and functions that will need to be run. How many and how complicated are these?
4) Reports... how many, how complicated.
5) Deployment - will you have to make an installer?
6) Testing - how much testing will there need to be?

If the project is really large, you can break it down by 'module'..for example...
..If there is an Accounting part, a Human Resources part, and a Shipping & Receiving part... you can calcualate the 6 things above for each section.

I realize this is very basic - but it should help get you started.

Also, if you have it, you might consider using Microsoft Project or something similar.