Re: Developing Informix Application

sas@mastic.gov.my (Syed) wrote: >Well, our development team consists of 5 person, 2 involve in User >Interface, 1 in report, 1 in stored procedures and trigers, and myself >involve in everthing, including, analysis, design and documentation, as >well as defining/creating/maintaining databases. Rough estimate (includes management, analysis, design, coding and docs) tables 2 days x 100 200 days screens 5 days x 50 250 days reports 5 days x 40 200 days spl 2 days x 25? 50 days That's 700 man days. If you are new to NE and Crystal then add 100%. That makes it 1400 days. Dividing by 5 people is roughly 300 days each which is 1.5 years. The added 100% is not a joke. If you get expert help you might reduce this to 50%. >My problem is New Era, because too much of coding involve, espcially >when i have to do some customization. >How much time should i take to complete such a system? The complexity is >average, and system size is medium. >Anyway thanks for your advice, i will have to try out with using AFCL >and try to increase the project duration. Don't use the AFCL because you will spend the next year fixing the bugs in it. David David W Chan GO5 Limited david@go5.com (work) dwc@cix.compulink.co.uk (home)