Project Report of Electricity Billing System Page 1

Project Report of Electricity Billing System 
 
Page - 20 
Project Scheduling: 
An elementary Gantt chart or Timeline chart for the development plan is given below. 
The plan explains the tasks versus the time (in weeks) they will take to complete.
January 
February 
March 
Requirement 
Gathering
Analysis
Design 
Coding
Testing
Implement
W1 W2 W3 W4 W1 W2 W3 W4 W1 W2 W3 W4 
W
i‘
s are weeks of the months, for i =1, 2, 3, 4
 
 

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Project Report of Electricity Billing System 
 
Page - 21 
Cost estimation of the project: 
Software cost comprises a small percentage of overall computer-based system cost. 
There are a number of factors, which are considered, that can affect the ultimate cost of 
the software such as - human, technical, Hardware and Software availability etc. 
The main point that was considered during the cost estimation of 
project
was its sizing. 
In spite of complete software sizing, function point and approximate lines of code were 
also used to "size" each element of the Software and their costing. 
The cost estimation done by me for 
Project
also depend upon the baseline metrics 
collected from past projects and these were used in conjunction with estimation 
variables to develop cost and effort projections. 
We have basically estimated this project mainly on two bases - 
1) Effort Estimation -
This refers to the total man-hours required for the development 
of the project. It even includes the time required for doing documentation and user 
manual.
2) Hardware Required Estimation -
This includes the cost of the PCs and the 
hardware cost required for development of this project.