10 ways to avoid stupid project estimates. Simple process to estimate times and costs in a web project. After my previous article about a structured process to develop a web application I received some requests from my readers which asked to me to dedicate a post about how to estimate times and costs of a web project.
In this articles I want to illustrate a simplified top-down process to estimate times and costs of a web process using a simple spreadsheet (in this example I used Google Spreadsheets but if you prefer you can use Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Spreadsheet or a free online service such as Zoho or EditGrid). Process main phases In this simple top-down estimate process you can identify five main phases: 1. Project2Manage.