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We've got a video recording from our client. It's about their current application(windows application) usage. In this video the presenter navigated us to different screens showing how they do their stuff. For example generating bill and its summary. Our task is to create a new web application that will be replacing this old windows application. Now, Mr. PM wants us to suggest estimated time.
Task 1: Go through the video and take screen shots.
Task 2: Create an excel sheet and write estimated time for UI and Back-End for each screen.
What's interesting is we don't have an iota of idea what happens in the background when the user clicks, say button 'Generate Summary'. We are totally unaware of the business logic.
Another interesting fact is that there are plenty of buttons on each screen and the client only used one or two in many cases. So, we know that 'Generate Summary' takes us to another screen but we don't know what the other buttons does?
Here comes another bomb from Mr. PM: "Please include the estimates for those other buttons on the screen as well."
My current estimate is that control over the project will be lost, on the moment the idea was conceived. Now, if it was something expensive, like a house, people would expect some plans and calculations on how you are to achieve that.
..but we have the freedom to muck around
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Garbage collection could be interesting - and it has a plus side: You wouldn't need to be 100% retrained...
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Yeah. "Fat Estimation" can be an option for what we see. What about estimating something that we have not even seen?
BTW, do you know any place at "nowhere"?
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