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Re: The Problem With Keeping It Plain And Simple? (take II)

Subject: Re: The Problem With Keeping It Plain And Simple? (take II)
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "Geoff Hart" <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:45:36 -0700

There's nothing wrong with it as an estimating method *if* there is
agreement that the finished docs are well planned and executed.
If, OTOH, you are fielding comments that the documents are
ponderous tomes with large amounts of content that are of
questionable value, it's the last method you want to try to use.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message -----
Geoff Hart

Some managers who don't know any better do use this kind of metric
for semi-good reasons: for example, if you know that last years'
documentation was 500 pages and took 250 hours to write, then as a
crude guess, your writers need to hit at least 2 pages per hour to
produce this year's version in the same length of time. Of course, that
trivializes the work we do, but if you have no better way to estimate a
project, I suppose it's better than nothing.


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