>>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!
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>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?
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>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.
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>I realize this is very basic - but it should help get you started.
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>Also, if you have it, you might consider using Microsoft Project or something similar.

Oh and by the way whatever the amount of hours you estimated you multiply it by two ;->