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RE: standard time estimates for documentation projects
Subject:RE: standard time estimates for documentation projects From:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 9 Apr 2002 09:40:29 -0600
Some wise men wrote:
> > Here's an example:
> > 1. The estimate: "I think I can do this in 3 days."
> > 2. Double the number. Three becomes six.
> > Use the next time multiplier. Days become weeks.
> Congratulations! You have just scored a sip of Scotch in the
> Classic Star Trek Drinking Game; a shot of Scotch if the job
> gets done ahead of schedule. heh.
This also sounds like the way roofers and other contractors fix houses
here in Florida. But first they get your hopes up by telling you it will
only take 3 days. Then they plant a sign for their company in your yard,
and disappear for days at a time. Then the aforementioned "time
multiplier" kicks in, and days become weeks.
Hmmmmm, I think *I* need to get my hands on some of this time multiplier
technology....
-Keith Cronin
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