For example, your first web site redesign may identify some cases where content and presentation were not separated fully (for whatever reason).
Adding new collections and groups of authors, etc. may also expose some cracks in your permissions setup and or authoring tools, XML schemas, etc.
These are normal occurrences and shouldn't be obsessed about up front. Wait until you know what the requirements actually are. But the basic point is that, if your deployment is successful, you may well have occasional bursts of activity when things change.
take it easy,
Charles
At 01:12 PM 11/23/2002 +0000, Nuno Lopes wrote:
Hi Barton, although vague (it all depends on what you consider as medium sized CMS implementation) here it goes my answer.
Having stated and froze requirements, I would risk to say that that it would take between 2-5 months to have the system running with no problems (I mean working as predicted and required by users, including training).
But because frozen requirements never exist I would risk 3-6 months.
Complex CMS's implementations take around 1-1.5 year (in stages to 3-4 months).
Easy usually implementations take 0.5-2 months.
Then again this all depends what you believe it's an easy, medium or complex CMS implementation, and what is a completed CMS implementation.
This are not estimates for your implementation (I have no knowledge about your requirements, technology, analysis, nothing to do such estimate). They are just some pointers.
Best regards,
Nuno Lopes
Independent Consultant
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