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Subject:RE: Time to perfom a procedure From:"Rosenschein, Jacob" <Jacob -dot- Rosenschein -at- gs -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:38:44 -0400
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From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 5:30 PM
>>What I would like to know is if anyone has ever included in the
>>document the amount of time that an average user from the targeted
>>audience should be able to perform the process. Even though we've got
>>maybe 50 steps, I don't think the process start to end should take no
>>more than 20/30 minutes and once they do, they never have to do it
>>again.
I haven't addressed it personally, but I do remember that the Windows
Installer used to give estimates of how long it would take to perform an
installation. It often took *less* time than Microsoft said it would, which
was icing on the cake. I thought it was pretty cool to include the figure in
the first place. Maybe you can give the 20-30 minute estimate and then, next
to each of the six section headers, you can include a parenthetical estimate
of how long the step will take. For example:
Plunking the DooDad (6 minutes)
1.
2.
3.
Chomping the Whirlygig (5 minutes)
1.
2.
3.
Smurfing the Smurfberry (3 minutes)
...
--Koby
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