So, 3.7m eh: 3700000 / 250 dollars per hour - likely the rate you could charge govt dept = 14800h 14800h / 8 for working hours per day = 1850d 1850d / 5 for working weeks = 370w 370w / 8 for staff (mgmrs, graphic designers, developers, accessbility specialist, usability specialist, content planning and authoring, technical architects, server admins, etc. prob req'd to make govt dept feel secure) = 46w per team member
So bundling all other costs (like expenses!, travel, meetings, hardware, tech support), this cost probably equates to a team of 8 people working on contract rates for 8-9 months. I've not checked out the scale of the site, apart from it not working out-of-the-box on my Firefox install! Not saying it's acceptible, but certainly feasible how these costs would mount up for a govt project. I guess to measure the success of it though according to the article, 25K registered users and 90K visitors (?!) - not sure what the time period here is, but these figures certainly don't look successful for such an initial outlay as 3.7m to me! Cheers, -Dan On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Aaron Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > Yup, > > That is a crap load of Flash content. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Paul Gutch - JoomlaNZ > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:27 AM > Subject: [phpug] Re: [OT] Mission-On > Oopps > > I was looking at the wrong part of the site.. > > I was looking at http://www.mission-on.co.nz/portal/ > > not the flash part.. > > > > > Regards > > Paul Gutch > JoomlaNZ > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Jochen Daum <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Paul Gutch - JoomlaNZ >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > www.mission-on.co.nz >> > >> > In the Herald this morning it is reported that: >> > >> >> Mission-On includes an interactive website aimed at 5-to-12-year-olds >> >> that >> >> cost $3.7 million to set up. >> > >> > >> > http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10563586 >> > >> > I have had a quick look through the site and reckon I could replicate it >> > for >> > a few grand. >> > >> > What am I missing? >> > >> >> Some ideas: >> >> - you will be talking to endless committees and provide a tender >> outlining the whole site inclduing a project plan, hence you have no >> idea what the actual marketing costs will be when you start. >> - you will have no clear goal and no clear guideline what is going to >> be a completed product, hence you have no idea what the project will >> actually cost. >> - if you do it for less than 100K, the person that is responsible for >> that kind of budget will not be able to approve it, because that >> person would not be in charge of such a wide scale project. Instead if >> you do it for 101k, you may be talking to a person that will be able >> to approve it >> - how can it be any good, if its that cheap? >> >> >> Note: Some of the points contain sarcasm. >> >> >> Jochen >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
