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Subject:Re: Pages Per Day From:"Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Jim Barrow" <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net> Date:Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:18:07 -0400
It really depends on a lot of factors, but with 50-75 use cases per
module and 4 modules to document, I can't see how anyone could
possibly think it possible to document 50-75 use cases in a single
day.
My advice is to scope 4 days of work and also scope the job as if time
hadn't been negotiated yet. Then go in with "this is what you can
expect in 4 days" (my guess is that it will be a lackluster, thin
piece of useless info) and "this is what it'll take to document the
entire application from these use cases". Then let the negotiations
begin.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Jim Barrow <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:
> This software application is huge – a basic ERP system with four separate modules. There are 50-75 use cases per module. In my estimation there's going to be ~500 pages of documentation.
>
> The project manager – and one upper-manager – gave us (are you ready for this?) four days to complete the end-user guide. The amusing part was that they scheduled five days to decide on a table of contents, and two weeks for review.
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