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There's an old TW saying that: "A good manual should be so simple and
straight forward that they (management) will wonder what took you so long."
One attribute of such documentation is a minimum number of pages.
Now (as we all know) good technical documentation takes time (much more than
does poor documentation).
So if good technical communication takes time and has a minimum number of
pages, why are the most popular estimating techniques based upon
pages-per-day "rules-of-thumb"?
All responses appreciated.
Tony Markatos
(tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com)
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