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Subject:Re: est. hours From:Karen Steele <karen -at- BILBO -dot- SUITE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 28 Oct 1993 11:00:57 -0500
When working for IBM on contract, writing procedures for programmers, I was
amazed to
learn that they estimate a contractor can write one finished page per day
(research to
pre-press), and an IBM employee can write 1/2 a finished page per day. Must be
because
they had to go to so many meetings.