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

[Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Geoff:

I feel stronger against page count estimating.

My best accomplishment: An assignment that took me
about three weeks to write 900 words.

Among the assignments I am least proud of: Four or
five pages a day for six months.

Tony Markos 


Geoff Hart wrote:
 
Some managers who don't know any better do use
this kind of metric [page counts] 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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