RE: Estimating time

["Earl Cooley" <shiva -at- io -dot- com>]

> I can't resist giving an extreme example here. I was brought into one 
> [...]
> Anyway, to make a long story short, we re-wrote virtually everything in 
> the manual at least four times, and some things five or six. I went off 
> and did another contract for eight months; I returned and the 
> sub-contractor departed, and what was supposed to be the final touch-up 
> on the project stretched from two months to four, and still there was no 
> sign of the project ending. Finally, 26 months after I had first started 
> the project, I announced that I had written the last word and went off 
> to another job. For all I know, the project is still unfinished.
> 
> I now refer to the experience as The Project That Wouldn't Die.
> 
> -- 
> Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com

That would be what I would call the Scheherazade Method of project 
estimation: just so long as the employer stays interested in your 
storytelling abilities, you're not laid off yet. heh.

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