Hi,
The best thing is to have experience and also know the skill level of your
team with both ASP.Net and VB.Net. If you've coded the tasks before (or if
you've been a team lead before) then using your past experience will help.
If you've only coded before then talk to the developers you now lead to
guage their skill level. If you've neither coded in .Net or been a team
lead before then enjoy the paycheck and dole out your responsibilities to
one of your developers. Have them report to you and try to understand the
terminology they are using with you, or at the very least memorize it. If
it is confusing to you then it will probably be confusing to the people you
report to which means you can regurgitate this terminology to them and
hopefully hold onto your job. Keep your lead developers happy and never let
on about what you don't know. Just write it down and while they are
performing your responsibilities bust your butt to investigate and do that
dreaded "reading" thing and try to learn.
As lead this is what you should be doing:
1. Find out if ASP.Net and VB.Net are the tools you need to finish the
project.
2. Define your layers: UI, Data Access, Business Logic, and etc.
3. Use visio or pen and paper to create the prototypes of all objects.
4. Break your project down into a series of tasks for each of the layers.
5. Create milestones at which time the current version goes to QA.
6. Create a document and submit it to your boss(es). Make sure you let
them know that a change in architecture and agressive QA can offset
milestones.
7. Get the project approved and then get it finished.
Good luck! Ken.
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Ken Dopierala Jr.
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I am looking for a good document of spread sheet that can help me better
estimate the amount of time and money a software development project
should take. I am using .NET Framework I have been given the responsibility as
team lead to give estimates on a series of projects my team will be given. I am
wondering without reading spending alot of time reading books is there
something on the web now either a tool or a formal i can use as a bases to
increase the accuracy of estimate the amount of time it will take to built
ASP.NET application using VB.NET