You might also want to engage a User Experience person to validate that what you think you're building is what your users actually want/need. Depending on how much time you have them on board for, their outputs can directly feed into your stories. Then - as you work through the stories they can design the interface and run user testing sessions to ensure the build is meeting expectation.
J On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Nicholas Faiz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
