actually i work as designer/mechanical engineer...
so, i design a new machine for customer but i'm not an experience worker to estimate the time that we use to deisgn a project.
so, i want to know how can we estimate time for every project?
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estimation period of design
Started by neurex, Nov 22 2007 02:15 PM
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Posted 03 December 2007 - 11:05 PM
Hi,
From my point of view the length of an project depends on many different factors. First of all the product itself. For example it tooks much more time to develop an aero plane then to develop a coffee machine due to system complexity. Another important thing is know how. This is why know is a key factor for buisness excellence!
Estimating the time for a specific project is part of project management and takes place in the very beginning of an project. At the first time it is a good estimation based on results from analysis and experience and should be part of the offer to the customer. The customer could also put down a delivery date as a hard requirement. Therefore you have to know whether this is feasible or not. If you recognize that time gets little later on in the project you will have to implement strategies, methods and tools to speed up the development progress. Even better if you start from the very beginning to put focus on process excellence in order to meet all milestones in time. Milestones, haha.... you have to create a timetable with major milestones and quality gates to monitor the project progress.
As part of the project management it is necessary to devide the project into different stages. The first stage includes the analysis of the overall task, requirements, goals and a lot of other stuff. At the end you will have a specification. You will have to break down the complete workpackage into sub workpages. At least you will have to get to a point where you can get an idea how much ressources you will need to achive the project requirements.
My advise is, if you have to manage a project get familiar with the basics of project management. There are a lot of good books on the market. The topic is much to complicated as to discuss it from the very beginning within a forum.
Good luck!
Regards,
Robert.
From my point of view the length of an project depends on many different factors. First of all the product itself. For example it tooks much more time to develop an aero plane then to develop a coffee machine due to system complexity. Another important thing is know how. This is why know is a key factor for buisness excellence!
Estimating the time for a specific project is part of project management and takes place in the very beginning of an project. At the first time it is a good estimation based on results from analysis and experience and should be part of the offer to the customer. The customer could also put down a delivery date as a hard requirement. Therefore you have to know whether this is feasible or not. If you recognize that time gets little later on in the project you will have to implement strategies, methods and tools to speed up the development progress. Even better if you start from the very beginning to put focus on process excellence in order to meet all milestones in time. Milestones, haha.... you have to create a timetable with major milestones and quality gates to monitor the project progress.
As part of the project management it is necessary to devide the project into different stages. The first stage includes the analysis of the overall task, requirements, goals and a lot of other stuff. At the end you will have a specification. You will have to break down the complete workpackage into sub workpages. At least you will have to get to a point where you can get an idea how much ressources you will need to achive the project requirements.
My advise is, if you have to manage a project get familiar with the basics of project management. There are a lot of good books on the market. The topic is much to complicated as to discuss it from the very beginning within a forum.
Good luck!
Regards,
Robert.
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