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Behind the Scenes of Project Scoping

Sheryle Gillihan

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Share the burden.

“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.” !

- Thomas Edison

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Buffer your best guesstimate.

Design Dev QA PM Total Hours

Meetings & Mgmt 36 36

Navigation 12 4 1 17

Homepage 26 12 4 42

Contact Page 2 4 1 7

Gallery Page 8 4 1 13

Events Page 12 6 3 21

Total 136

Account for every role.

Don’t forget to add time for QA Testing & Project Management.

Date Assess the risks.

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Prepare for scope creep.

Request Dev QA Notes Hours

Make the site easier to find on search engines

0.75 0.5XML Sitemap Plugin. Time includes the custom robots.txt

1.25

We want to add videos in our Media Center

0.25 0.25Youtube Plugin with a featured image slider.

0.5

We want to display our Google Forms on the site.

0.25 1Google Forms Plugin setup is quick , but there will be style issues to resolve.

1.25

Total Hours 3

Sample Maintenance Scope

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40 hours ≠ 1 week

Design Design Design Dev Dev Dev

Role Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 5 Wk 6 Hours

Project Mgr 6 6 6 6 6 6 36

Designer 10 10 10 10 10 10 60

Developer - - - 10 10 10 30

QA Tester - - - - 8 2 10

Total 136

Plan realistic delivery dates.

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Scoping is like spinning plates.

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Ship it, you must.

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Nothing’s Impossible.

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Share the burden. Learn as you go.

Be realistic. Ship it.