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Subject: Re: Documentation estimates
From: "CapDev Communications" <capdev -dot- communications -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:27:06 -0800

I have heard of some metrics for technical editing. My understanding is that
the metric used by a global software and o/s provider is 6 pages/hour; the
metric used by a leading systems developer in Silicon Valley is 9
pages/hour; and the metric suggested by CMS is 1.5 pages/hour. These metrics
are used for budgeting and project management purposes, sometimes without
allowing for contingencies or pauses for queries.

I would be very interested in learning of typical metrics used for technical
writing, perhaps some for writing from scratch and others for updating
existing documents.

Best,
Pat Egan


On 12/12/06, John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:


> For the one-page-per-month assignment, it was impossible to know
> ahead of time how much time was necessary. (Actually, I initially
> estimated 3 months per page.)

Gotta be honest...I can't conceive of talking a full month to write a
page of content.



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