Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!cgch!cgchd6!whbr From: whbr@cgchd6.uucp (Hellmuth Broda) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: ethics Message-ID: <720@cgch.UUCP> Date: 22 Nov 88 16:29:54 GMT References: <1616@basser.oz> <941@vsi.COM> Sender: news@cgch.UUCP Reply-To: whbr@cgchd6.UUCP (Hellmuth Broda) Organization: c/o CIBA-GEIGY Ltd, Sci.Comp.Centre, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland Lines: 36 In article <941@vsi.COM> friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: |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'. |< [...] | |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 From /usr/lib/cookies: Westheimer's Rule To estimate the time to do a task: estimate the time it should take, multiply by 2, and change the unit of measure to the next highest unit. Thus we allocate 2 days for a one hour task. This wording sounds so scientific that you can put it into your design documentation as a motto on page 3 ;-} Hellmuth ____________________________________________________________________________ | Dr. Hellmuth W. Broda | c/o CIBA-GEIGY Scientific Computing Ctr. | | Biologist and Systems Analyst | R-1045.3.16, P.O.Box, Tel:+4161 697-7109 | | UUCP: whbr@cgch.uucp | CH-4002 Basel Switzerland | | Old uucp: ...!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!cgch!whbr | | Internet: whbr%cgch.uucp@uunet.uu.net | | BITNET: whbr%cgch.uucp@cernvax.bitnet | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- <<< Everybody is a foreigner... almost everywhere >>>