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Subject:Man-hours and Man-months From:"Margaret A. Smith" <msmith -at- AROS -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:20:28 -0600
Way back when, I was forced by my management to project work based on
"man-hours." I made my point (but didn't win the war) when I specified 1.0
man-hours = .25 woman-hours.
