Re: VB Project cost estimation

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From: Bonj (a_at_b.com)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:40:23 -0000

They obviously think you'll take ages to do it.

"Peter Aitken" <paitken@CRAPnc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:fa6Zb.20165$eL2.1935717@twister.southeast.rr.com...
> In the past all my paid VB programming has been billed on an hourly basis.
> Now a client wants me to quote a figure for an entire project and I am not
> quite sure how to go about it. I thought that perhaps someone has
developed
> a set of guidelines for estimating the time a project will take given the
> number of forms, database tables, etc. Or, perhaps a utility to assist in
> the process?
>
> --
> Peter Aitken
>
> Remove the crap from my email address before using.
>
>

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