Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: ethics Summary: Alternate estimating technique Message-ID: <941@vsi.COM> Date: 17 Nov 88 13:20:18 GMT References: <1616@basser.oz> Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA Lines: 26 In article <1616@basser.oz>, john@basser.oz (John Mackin) writes: < For those of you faced with this problem I offer the method. < I call it `Estimating by Threes'. < < If you think the task will take under ten minutes, tell them < three days. < < If you think the task will take more than ten minutes but < less than an hour, tell them three weeks. < < If you think the task will take more than an hour but less < than a day, tell them three months. < < Otherwise, tell them three years. Alternate mechanism: * take your best guess as to how long the project will take, double it, then go up to the next unit of time :-). Steve -- Steve Friedl V-Systems, Inc. +1 714 545 6442 3B2-kind-of-guy friedl@vsi.com {backbones}!vsi.com!friedl attmail!vsi!friedl ------------Nancy Reagan on the worm: "Just say OH NO!"------------