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| From | James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Advanced C |
| Date | 2011-11-30 07:40 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <jb588i$3qa$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 11/30/2011 07:15 AM, Eric Sosman wrote: > On 11/29/2011 9:49 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: >> Eric Sosman<esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> writes: >>> Deciding *what* to do is the hard part; doing it is >>> easy by comparison. >> >> So, and in between the two, there is �estimating how >> long it will take�. How easy is that by comparision? > > There's a well-known three-step algorithm for obtaining > realistic project estimates: > > 1) Ask an experienced engineer how long the job will take. > The answer has a number and a unit of time, for example > "four weeks." > > 2) Double the number. For the example, this yields "eight > weeks." > > 3) Advance to the next-larger time unit. The example now > yields "eight months." > > ... and that's how long a typical four-week project takes. ;-) So the lesson to be derived from this is that the most accurate time estimates are those measured in fortnights, while the least accurate ones are those measured in minutes or seconds. :-) -- James Kuyper
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