By andrewbadera on

Hi all,

I know this is a wide open question, but how long, on average, would you say it takes to develop a fairly straightforward Drupal module? I'm working on a custom taxonomy module at the moment, and my best guess to estimate for the client is 3.5 "days" or 28 billable hours of work.

Does this sound or feel way off? Under/over?

Insight and experience and opinions appreciated, thanks in advance!

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Stmated commented

Since there is no detail about what your module should do, it is extra difficult to respond properly. But it highly depends on how used you are to Drupal development. If you know most there is to know, and what tools are already available and don't need to be reinvented (there is a lot of hard to find but good stuff in the Drupal code), it can be a day for something easy, otherwise it can be up to... well, anything within a week.

If you have never developed with Drupal before, you will most likely be done in about the time you specified, but you won't follow standards and will probably reinvent the wheel somewhere.

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andrewbadera commented

I can't charge a client for learning curve time. I'm trying to price it in in-line with the pricing I would expect I could deliver in a technology I'm 100% proficient in.

Fortunately as far as standards go, I've picked up a Drupal 6 module development book, and I'm basing this off the existing taxonomy module, so I think I'm remaining pretty Drupalish.