Posted by julma on September 1, 2008 at 11:20pm
Less than 10 000 $
42% (86 votes)
Between 10 000 $ and 30 000 $
19% (38 votes)
Between 30 000 $ and 100 000 $
12% (25 votes)
Between 100 000 $ and 300 000 $
15% (31 votes)
More than 300 000 $
11% (23 votes)
Total votes: 203
Comments
Do you count the salary of
Do you count the salary of staff whose primary duties are Drupal-related?
Yes of course, and if you
Yes of course, and if you can give examples of drupal project in which the budget was more than 100 000 $, that can be really helpful.
I hope Drupal will be more and more used also for not only small projects, but I am not sure if it is already suited for projects whose budget excceed 100 000 $.
There are so few people talking about project management yet in the Drupal community, compare to others technical worlds like J2EE ou even Ruby on Rails where project management is a really big topic taken very seriously.
Strange, is not it ?
Business practices and project management
There are lots of huge multi-million dollar Drupal deployments. Warner Bros Records, Sony BMG, SpaWar, etc. Drupal is only one part of the stack in these large services but it's not uncommon to have 20+ person team working around Drupal.
There's been lots of presentation and discussions about client management, agile development, business best practices at Drupalcons and Drupalcamps. Drupal.org leans toward the technical end of the discussion about Drupal but there are very strong project and operations practices going on inside businesses.
Kieran
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Project Management
I agree. It´s not as present as I would expect. I guess there are a lot of things in progress at the moment. Discussing them here will raise awareness. At the moment we are busy in keeping our own house in order and making sure tools, procedures and client engagement is managed and executed properly , but I wouldn´t mind to get involved in a broader discussion here and in spreading the word locally in our communities . . .
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I'm not involved with either of these, but they're the most expensive Drupal sites I know:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/16/sequoia-invests-in-blog-network-tea...
http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/29/nowpublic-citizen-journalism-site-expa...
Michelle
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witty
Good use of Poll :)
lets see what comes out of it.
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Dipen Chaudhary
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be careful about naming specific clients!
As much as I'd love to divulge figures and comment on large projects, I'd be horrified if any of my clients found themselves on this page by Googling themselves (which they do, and often). This conversation belongs on an extranet, or at least something protected by robots.txt
@modulist
Oh really ? That is a pitty
Oh really ?
That is a pitty !
Clients should be proud to use Drupal. It must be a logo like "Intel inside".
They should be pride because with their huge projects, they must have the opportunity to give back to the community.
And by doing so to help lot of ONG drupal site like Amnesty international for example to benefit indirectly from their contributions.
I am sure they will feel better if they knew that, and maybe their wallet too because they can even add this item into their green marketing policy !
Even the governments should help Drupal by offering coporate tax reduction to encourage compagnies that use drupal on their project and give back to the community.
Yes exactly the same logic than tax reduction for buying a car that pollute less.
Come on, tell us some interesting figures if you have ones.
Be careful what assumptions
Be careful what assumptions you make. Some of these large projects have already given back some very important and popular code.
What they probably wouldn't want plastered over a public site is the budgets and who got paid what to do the work.
Ditto
What it comes down to is that the contractors or organizations who have provided the Drupal-related services to these large organizations are most likely under strict non-disclosure agreements and can get themselves into serious trouble for divulging anything about the projects, therefore all developers and others in the Drupal should make sure to respect the letter of the agreements signed in any work performed. On the other hand, there is lots of information which is publicly available and/or commonly known, about some of these sites, and it would not be that big of a stretch to generally list them as examples of large implementations without necessarily divulging any proprietary information. It is best to start from a point of caution. Keep in mind as well, that as Drupal was listed as one of the top-five security risks (leave all comments in another thread), organizations are bound to be sensitive to even divulging that their site is Drupal-based, although bots can usually crawl the site to figure this out.
Site categories
Let's try to at least post the market/category/focus of the site. That would be enough, forget the client names unless it's allowed.
Chris Charlton, Author & Drupal Community Leader, Enterprise Level Consultant
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Flemish government
Currently working on a project to merge several website of the Flemish government concerning durability and renewable energy, currently the project is estimated at € 150 000, but might go up another 50 000 along the way.
Other metrics for drupal projects
There are also other metrics to consider to evaluate a drupal project :
At least :
Time
Team (number of people involved)
Number of contributed modules in use
Number of custom modules
Number of lines of code in the custom modules
Then again I believe that the whole community will benefit of sharing more about project management knowledge.
In this matter the good practices really depends of the size of the project.
That is why I have started a poll about the size of drupal projects and we can see that there is really different sizes of drupal projects.
I ve forgotten the most
I ve forgotten the most common metric for a project : man-day
everyone who votes should consider membership
I'd like everyone who has voted to consider donating money to the Drupal Association, if you haven't already. There are memberships for individuals (22 Euros) and for companies (72 Euros), and by a quick glance at the results there's over 135 voters who have "billed" more than 100 times of what the membership donation fees cost. Donate and get a recognized Drupal membership today!
Chris Charlton, Author & Drupal Community Leader, Enterprise Level Consultant
I teach you how to build Drupal Themes http://tinyurl.com/theme-drupal and provide add-on software at http://xtnd.us
I am sorry I have edited the
I am sorry I have edited the post to add (size in $) at the end of the question.
I didn't know the results will be cancelled.
I am really sorry.
could we add more choices?
could we add more choices? (it's a drupal thing) less than -0 $, less than -10 $. and so on , and maybe priceless
never get job
absolutely im never get project really big $$ in above wow
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