RE: People don't see problems that don't happen

["Andrew Warren" <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>]

richard -dot- melanson -at- us -dot- tel -dot- com wrote:

> > When working with the notoriously-optimistic schedules that most
> > software developers submit, I've found it useful to double the
number
> > and increment the units:  A "one-hour" job is really a two-day job,
> > "two weeks" is four months, "30 days" is 60 weeks, etc.
> 
> Wow, that is some serious "fudge factoring" you are doing there!!  :-)

Yeah, but it's remarkably accurate... Especially if you're doing it
after the fact, so you can choose whether "double and increment the
units" means that one week gets treated as "1 week" (2 months), "5 days"
(10 weeks), "40 hours" (80 days), "1/4 month" (1/2 year), etc.

-Andrew

=== Andrew Warren  - awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com
=== Synaptics, Inc - Santa Clara, CA
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