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Readiness Evaluation for Small Project Development

So, You're Ready to Tackle an Access Project? How Can I Help You Get Started?

Before we even begin, we'll review the options available to you, both custom and off-the-shelf. If you decide to proceed, we'll start the technical review.

I will review your proposed table design, application architecture and interface. I will summarize that review in a document with recommendations and suggestions in each of the following areas.

Quality Control Prior to Deployment

I will review and test your database application. That is the role a Testing Unit fills in a large project team. I will summarize my review in a document with recommendations and suggestions in each of the areas described on this page.

A data store
In other words, the tables that hold your data.
A user interface.
That is to say, the forms and reports with which you interact with the data.
Application Logic.
The code (or macros) you use to manage it all.

If you get the tables set up right, the rest can be straightforward. If you get it wrong, creating a usable interface can be frustrating. Moreover, the logic required to use an inadequate table design is significantly more complex.

We start with a review of the data you need to capture and the tables you need to store it.

In addition to application design, you need to choose the right configuration and architecture for your business.

Choose between these options.

Local or Local Area Network MS Access (ACE)
Local or Local Area Network SQL Server, MySQL, etc.
Web, or browser based, databases, remotely hosted SQL Server, MySQL, etc.
Hybrid databases combining the appropriate features of both.

Sometimes a good off-the-shelf application will meet your needs at an affordable cost. "Checkbook" type applications are a good example of this class of application. So, before you re-invent the wheel, let's take a look at what is available.
Desktop-only database applications are usually less expensive to build than web applications
Web database applications are usually more ambitious--and more costly--but they carry your business to the next level.
People expect to use their business tools from anywhere, at any time.
You pay only for the development work you need for your custom database.
GPC Consulting rates are affordable.
Your investment in other software is minimal (possibly even free).
Migrating all or part of your database to the web is inexpensive with a Hosted Solution like Office 365

Request a Readiness Evaluation for Your Access project from Grover Park Consulting's Access Migration Services©.

Readiness Recommendations for small projects
Pre-Deployment Testing and Quality Control

George Hepworth
Grover Park Consulting/Access Migration Services

I am a 2007-2019 MS Access™ MVP Awardee

My blog, Grover Park George on Access, discusses Access, SharePoint, and the future direction for Access. The future is very bright for Access developers.

Published Books

In addition to Grover Park George On Access, I collaborated on MS Access™ in a SharePoint World and co-authored Professional Access 2013 Programming

Complete and submit my Proposed Application Profile

Whether you choose a desktop database based on MS Access, a mixed Access/SQL Server architecture, or a Cloud database, my PAP will help you plan how best to proceed.

*Your initial pre-engagement consultion is free when it leads to an engagement to review and evaluate plans for new database or to upgrade an existing database. Typically, this will be about a one-hour conversation. We'll try to identify an appropriate solution and gather enough information for me to estimate the amount of time it will take to complete it.

I will invoice you for the time we spend and rebate that hour when a full engagement is begun.

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*The Pre-Engagement Conference is one to one-and-a-half hours during which we explore your needs and decide if we should move ahead to a contract. Normal hourly rates apply after that.

Readiness Evaluation for Small Project Development

Quality Control Prior to Deployment

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