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Subject:Re: Another term for Manhours From:"Cramer, Kim" <Kcramer -at- NCSLINK -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 8 Jun 1998 14:25:50 -0700
Kathy Ellis asked:
> I've convinced the programmers that _man-hours_ is a term
> that we need to exterminate. They are all for it, but we've run
> in to a problem. In the screen design, we have space
> limitations that restrict us to nine characters. (Staff-hours
> doesn't work. Staff also implies an employee, and some
> of the work is done by outside companies.)
>
> Anyone run into this and have a slick solution?
>
We use dev-hours (development hours), which makes the term applicable to
all types of development (staff or contract, programming or
documentation, male or female).
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Kim Cramer mailto:kcramer -at- ncslink -dot- com
Sr. Information Developer
NCS Education, Mesa AZ
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