Re: Real World Advantages of Office / Word 2007 and Windows 7

[Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Whether I'm working direct or as a consultant, I have a standard time and
cost schedule.

1X estimate for time and cost if I/we work on the project from the
beginning.

1.5X if I/we are brought in halfway through the project

3X if I/we are brought in at the last minute.

5X if someone else already tried to do it and I/we have to clean up their
mess.

Don't ever hesitate to say that you can't clean up someone else's mess in
less than X days and there isn't going to be a way to avoid a slip in the
project schedule.  I've seen more tech writers get in trouble for making
promises like that they couldn't keep than any other reason.

Gene Kim-Eng



On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:57 PM, William Sherman
<bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>wrote:

>
>  The formatting discussed previously was to bail the SE out in their 2 day
> panic in the one manual they claimed and had made a total outhouse of.

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