Title: ACCGeneral Planning a database – Part 2

Symptom: You have completed defining what the proposed database is and is not supposed to do. Now the person who has requested it needs to know how much time will be involved in developing the actual database and getting it into use.

Subject: This tutorial discusses techniques for estimating database development time

Applies to: all versions of Access and databases generally. Tested in: n/a
Skill level: new user

Author: Glenn Lloyd Date: October 5, 2003

Keywords: database planning, database development, estimating

Overview:
• Why prepare a time budget?
• Development phases
• A simple estimating technique
• Estimating using weighted averages
• Presenting the budget