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Whether your project is large or small, on web or mobile, the same principles of scoping apply. It's a challenging task and something that improves with experience, however, even the best of us make mistakes. It's good to keep these tips top of mind so that your next project can kick off with better expectations and defined requirements or goals.
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Behind the Scenes of Project Scoping
Sheryle Gillihan
01
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
01
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.
01
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
01
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.
01
Scoping is like spinning plates.
01
Ship it, you must.
01
Nothing’s Impossible.
01
Share the burden. Learn as you go.
Be realistic. Ship it.