How to properly evaluate a project?

Question

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How to properly evaluate a project?
What criteria should be taken into account?
How to avoid overestimating/underestimating development time?
What can be read on this topic?

Answer 1

Ideally: The cost of content + the cost of the programmer's work + the cost of advertising + the cost of organizational work + the cost of content rights = the cost of the project.
In practice: each term can range from 0 to "a lot".
With time, about the same. We break the whole project into separate parts (content, coding, organization and advertising) and then we look at how much time we can spend on each part. Then we multiply the resulting time by the “error rate” (I personally have it equal to 1.5).

Answer 2

The author has already said above, but I will insert my 5 cents, based on my experience.
Are you asking as a manager or as a programmer?
Twofold situation. As a programmer, you can start by calculating how much time you spend. But the manager, if he has experience in programming or experience in other projects, may realize that he put too many hours on the implementation of simple things. Therefore, if you do not know something, the time spent on self-learning should not be entered into the implementation. What you have learned, you will take with you, it is your asset.

Answer 3

In such cases, regardless of whether I am on the side of the customer or I take an order, I always use the freelance exchange. Calculations, coefficients are all good, but at any stage, the error can nullify all calculations.
The easiest way to ask people why they are ready to do it and for how long, after that, weed out the obvious fake, those who underestimate the price and do not have a portfolio, and weed out the most biting ones. At the output, there will be from 2 to 10 candidates and by calculating the average of their proposals, get the cost of the project, taking the maximum from the proposed time, get the time.
As a result, you will find out for how much the bulk of people can implement this project.
It is reasonable to evaluate the project yourself only when you fully understand the process, who will implement it and for how long.