Re: FN-FORUM: Balancing amounts of work?

date posted 24th January 2006 23:32

> Fortunately I picked this one up before I went freelance - if you're a
> programmer you pretty much have to break a job into it's smallest
> components (nothing more than 2 days, ideally) work out how long each
> one will take, double it and then add 25 percent onto the total time you
> have come up with. That usually gets you into the right ballpark.

My rule is estimate how long, double the number and go to the next longest
unit.

Hence:

1 hour => 2 days
2 days => 4 weeks
3 weeks => 6 months
2 months => 4 years
etc.

Works quite well :)

Anthony
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