The document provides information about project scoping for a website development project. It includes: 1) A breakdown of estimated hours for different roles and pages including design, development, QA, and project management. The total estimated hours is 136. 2) A sample maintenance scope request with additional tasks, estimated hours, and notes. The total estimated hours for these additional tasks is 3 hours. 3) A Gantt chart showing the estimated hours per week for each role over a 6 week period with a total of 136 hours.

1. Behind the Scenes
of Project Scoping
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Sheryle Gillihan

2. 01
Share the burden.

3. “Time is really the only capital that
any human being has, and the only
thing he can’t afford to lose.”
!
- Thomas Edison

4. Buffer your best guesstimate.
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5. Account for every role.
Design Dev QA PM Total Hours
Meetings & Mgmt 36 36
Navigation 12 4 1 17
Homepage 26 12 4 42
Contact Page 2 4 1 7
Gallery Page 8 4 1 13
Events Page 12 6 3 21
Total 136
Don’t forget to add time for QA Testing & Project Management.

6. Date Assess the risks.

7. 01
Prepare for scope creep.

8. Sample Maintenance Scope
Request Dev QA Notes Hours
Make the site easier to find
on search engines
0.75 0.5
XML Sitemap Plugin. Time
includes the custom
robots.txt
1.25
We want to add videos in
our Media Center
0.25 0.25
Youtube Plugin with a
featured image slider.
0.5
We want to display our
Google Forms on the site.
0.25 1
Google Forms Plugin setup
is quick , but there will be
style issues to resolve.
1.25
Total Hours 3

9. 01
40 hours ≠ 1 week

10. Plan realistic delivery dates.
Design Design Design Dev Dev Dev
Role Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 5 Wk 6 Hours
Project Mgr 6 6 6 6 6 6 36
Designer 10 10 10 10 10 10 60
Developer - - - 10 10 10 30
QA Tester - - - - 8 2 10
Total 136

11. Scoping is like spinning plates.
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12. 01
Ship it, you must.

13. 01
Nothing’s Impossible.

14. 01
Share the burden.
Learn as you go.
Be realistic.
Ship it.