Re: Documentation estimates

Subject: Re: Documentation estimates
From: Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>, Robert Landry <robert -dot- landry -at- rapt -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:45:23 -0800 (PST)

For the one-page-per-month assignment, it was impossible to know ahead of time how much time was necessary. (Actually, I initially estimated 3 months per page.)

My point is that if a page can take a month or just a couple of hours, while I generally have some inclination as to the amount of effort required, estimating on page count is often not the way to go.

Richard Lewis

John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> For the documentation that I am most proud of, it took me about a
> month to create about a page of text. For the documentation that I
> am most embarrassed of, I averaged 5 or 6 pages per day. So much
> for estimating based upon page count.

If the estimate documented the rate of a page in a month, then the
estimate was accurate.


John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."



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