Web Dept Statistics
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- schokcc
I'm not quite sure how to phrase this but I'm looking for some statistical information comparing how large an interweb department gets based on how large a company is. You seen anything like that?
- schokcc0
More directly to the point, I'm being asked to justify adding 2 employees to a department of 1 to service a company of 17 departments and 200+ people. Just looking to have some supporting information to backup my projections for the next 12 months.
- detritus0
Surely your projections should be based on the amount of work you are supposed to achieve within that period? It's got fuck all to do with the organisation's size - what matters is the importance your company places on its web ambitions and what it anticipates making from them over the next 24 months.
There's no standard model for an organisation and it's web effort - I've worked in places where we were less than 0.25% of the workforce and in other places where we were more than 25%. At the moment, I am 100% - but that's because I work for myself...
- schokcc0
No shit. I have no argument with that but that does not mean that the people making the decision would see it that way. This is simply an exercise to show some supportive evidence of these statements. Decisions makers with 100% of the financial control yet zero knowledge of how long it takes to create a web banner need comparatives most of the time.
- skt0
If it takes 1 person x amount of time to do 1 web banner. And you are expected to do y number of banners over the year, work it out that way.
How are we meant to understand what you need, we don't even know what the company does?
- detritus0
What do you mean 'no shit' and 'fail'? You're asking a specious question without providing any additional context to help fill out our responses - and we're bothering to try and give you an answer!
You say your decision makers have 'zero knowledge..' - whose fault is that? At the very least, they do have one 'comparative' - last year's figures for output from one person. They have the projections that accounted for that one person's introduction the year prior and, presumably, have some idea of the market they could take (otherwise, why bother looking to expand?) - the cumulation of these figures is what they should use to derive their projections.
Besides which, I'd think they should be looking at the next 24 months of projections as the transition from single member to a team will probably cost more in the short term to set up than it will make. But, then again, i have no idea what you do, to what degree and to what market, so I'm just gassing.
- schokcc0
Be real, son. You're not trying to answer my question but rather assume that my question is wrong in the first place. I'm past this already - I've got the information you're talking about and now I'm looking to seal the deal some simple statistics.
It's ok. Go back to affirming yourselves with another thread.
- detritus0
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