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You say that, but consider what it takes to build a web site for an organisation like Four Seasons. You’d probably spend 6 months alone on producing the variou
by Spearchucker 15y ago
You say that, but consider what it takes to build a web site for an organisation like Four Seasons.
You’d probably spend 6 months alone on producing the various specifications and plans, and deal with governance (reviews and revisions, sign-off, acceptance and so on). You’d build out a proper information architecture (a little more than the average SharePoint TeamSite taxonomy).
To show you how realistic that number is, consider the scale of documentation Four Seasons would require you produce. Those docs would probably include, but not be limited to:
Project/team structure
Risk assessment
Vision/Scope
Business requirements
User requirements
System requirements
Operational requirements
Usage scenarios
Conceptual design
Logical design
Physical design
Availability plan
Backup and recovery plan
Budget plan
Capacity plan
Communications plan
Deployment plan
Development plan
End user support plan
Project plan
Project schedule
Pilot plan
Purchasing and facilities plan
Security plan
Support plan
Test plan
Training plan
And after all that you haven’t even written a line of code (other than the inevitable throw-away proofs of concept and demonstrators).
Imagine having to estimate the effort required to produce that set. The analysis alone will take a herd of business analysts months.
Like Steve Sinofsky said – new businesses (start-ups), or even new markets, simply cannot solve the class of problems that is addressed by larger and more established firms.
[Edit] That list up there excludes systems integration (hotel reservations, customer care, etc) and data migration - both of which can add orders of magnitude to a project.