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

[Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

It's often quite necessary, when you factor in the
"hidden problems," the interruptions, the time found
tracking down SMEs, fixing various technical issues
with the templates and software, etc. It's a
consultant's rule of thumb that applies equally to
development, graphic artistry and technical writing.

--- richard -dot- melanson -at- us -dot- tel -dot- com wrote:

> Wow, that is some serious "fudge factoring" you are
> doing there!!  :-)  
> 
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> Subject: RE: People don't see problems that don't
> happen
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> 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
> 
> === Andrew Warren  - awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com ===
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