Dunno, normally the way to do it is:
1) Work out your deliverables
2) Build a project plan around those using any two of cost, functionality & quality (you can't specify all three) as a basis.
This is very basic project management which I'm sure you can find a lot of stuff on the web for.
If you don't know the deliverables then your project plan needs to be a plan for discovering them. This may be compatible with hiring a developer, or it may not. It all depends on how you want your discovery process to work.
For a discover process then you have a few ways to go:
* RAD - good for projects with a strong user oriented basis (which this may or may not have, depending on how you look at it).
* Exploratory programming - good for projects where you aren't quite sure which direction they should take (this may be closer, but again depends on how you look at it).
* Detailed analysis/specification - good for projects where all of the answers can be known at the beginning (probably not good for this project as changes in direction can be very bad news).
In either of the first two you don't need so much a project plan as hands on management, ruthlessness with anything that is created (throw away and start over often) and a definite idea of how much budget you want to spend on it.
I still think that you are looking at two different projects:
1) Some web site tools to make your administrative tasks easier
2) Kendra Initiative
Although (2) will help you to deliver (1) the cost of doing it that way around is a massive increase in complexity of delivering these very simple tools. This is going to lead to delay, increased cost and increased risk based on delivering (1) with whatever tools you have to hand (preferably off the shelf) before spending too much time on (2).
K
Kirit Sælensminde - Obsideon Limited
http://www.obsideon.com ICQ:10009115
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Harris [mailto:daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 February 2003 01:16
To: k-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [kDev] kendraTools test 1...
Hi Kirit and All,
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 07:39 am, Kirit Saelensminde wrote:
> Hmmm, it does seem very similar to the FOST demonstration I showed you
> about 5 years ago :-)
Yes, and to many other good ideas I've seen since such as Common Forum
and The Brain and... I'm just taking the best ideas I come across and
gluing them together to make what seems to work best for kendraTools.
> The aim of FOST was quite simple - allow developers to build systems
> with highly structured data and to allow users to add new links
> between these data because they think in different terms.
Hmmm, thanks for the explanation but not sure how this exactly fits
into the project plan which needs to get completed before I can hire
(yes, pay!) some developer(s) to code it. Can you make this clearer? Or
suggest a path for progress?
Cheers Daniel
Test: http://www.kendra.org.uk/tools1/
Plan:
http://www.kendra.org.uk/documents/kendra_tools_project_plan_1.html