RE: People don't see problems that don't happen

Subject: RE: People don't see problems that don't happen
From: <richard -dot- melanson -at- us -dot- tel -dot- com>
To: <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>, <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 15:04:58 -0400

Wow, that is some serious "fudge factoring" you are doing there!! :-)

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From: techwr-l-bounces+richard -dot- melanson=us -dot- tel -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+richard -dot- melanson=us -dot- tel -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Andrew Warren
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 3:01 PM
To: Chris Borokowski; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: People don't see problems that don't happen

Chris Borokowski wrote:

> In my experience, it often makes sense to take the amount of time the
> task would ideally take and multiply it by four.

When working with the notoriously-optomistic schedules that most software developers submit, I've found it useful to double the number and increment the units: A "one-hour" job is really a two-day job, "two weeks" is four months, "30 days" is 60 weeks, etc.

-Andrew

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