It only came across to me that you probably wanted to include the sales scheduled time within the implementation schedule which I've not for obvious reasons.
For the scheduled time for a sales can be varies from 1 to 8 months, but I concur with Lennard Regebro that in normal conditions can go at most to 5 months. I'm including the slack phase here just because a sales IMO is done when at least the customer has paid 0.5 of the overall project cost (product + consulting) and that rarely happens before the project actually starts. As a safe guard, inline with Lennard Regebro I'm estimating passed time not man/work hours. Nevertheless this is still vague because I'm not including human resources, location etc, etc. But I believe that I can rely on this at least as a priori estimate. Barton wrote: > consulting phase, development phase, implementation phase, testing > phase Lennart wrote: >I think it's a mistake to split the implementation into these phases. I also concur with Lennart on this one. This could most probably result in a disaster if stages and estimates were done and serialized in this manner for projects that are more then simple. Nevertheless this is something that appears quite often in vendor/consultant proposals irrespective of CM project complexity. Best regards, Nuno Lopes Independent Consultant. -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
