I am planning to develop a web 2.0 application which would be comparable to www.flixster.com (just for reference) in terms of size and scope. I am planning to hire people with the following skillsets in India: 2 developers (1 senior architect) strong with PHP and AJAX 1 web designer strong at photoshop, HTML, CSS 1 MySQL DBA strong at DB design and maintenance I'll be driving the project myself. Do you think it can work? From your experience, how long would a team of this size take to implement this kind of a project? I am targetting 4 months. I would really really appreciate some direction on this.
Thats a good size team for the work. You gonna need about 6/7 months. A month or so will go on requirements analysis, initial layout designs etc. Then about a month on front end design.
If you're not in a timezone that overlaps India during hours you want to work, add three months to the end of the project for all the time delays that will happen when your "team" needs an answer to a question and goes into a full stop for two days until you get them an answer that they understand. And then tells you that your answer will cost you more money than originally quoted. Been there, done that. Would rather pay extra to be in the same time zone as my developers.