Just a few thoughts on this. For time estimate, you should spend a lot of time working on your user stories, and have a firm representation of the system you want to build in a concise format. Having a legacy system to point to can be problematic, as it's always ambiguous what to take forward and what not to replicate. You can ask your guru hired dev to time estimate the stories, which is much easier.
On top of that, you have to set up servers, practices, etc.. 2 months might be possible, but it sounds improbable. Better to have a good description of the basic system you need to accomplish your goals, and then estimate that and add another half again (in case things blow out) to be safe. A guru level coder would start at $90 an hour, at least, I'd think. HTML 5 and JS sounds great. Also, who's the design expert? If it's not a coder, then making sure you have your design templates in place (which can reflect your user stories) can really speed things up. Cheers, Nicholas On Jan 31, 5:13 pm, Tim McEwan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to build a MS Project/Omniplan-style project planning interface in a > web browser. I'm really keen for jQuery & HTML5 and stuff, but if it's going > to be a ludicrous undertaking, I'd settle for something like Flash. We > basically need to allocate team members to tasks and then time to the team > members, but ease of use for non-techies is key, so we need things to be > draggable. > > I'm thinking me (Rails moderate, no jQuery) + one Rails/jQuery guru for two > months @ 35 hours/week oughtta do it. Am I dreaming? > > If you'd be so kind, please send me your thoughts on: > - would you stick with Rails/JS or go with > Flash/Air/whatever-that-microsoft-one-is? > - do you think the time estimate is feasible? > - how much is a Rails/jQuery guru of the required calibre? > - would you like to be that guru? * > - no really, am I dreaming? > > * It'd have to be onsite at UTS, if you're interested. > > Cheers, > > -- > Tim McEwan > Sent with Sparrow -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
