From: matt <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re[2]: [9fans] mk
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:13:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <125273632813.20010427161333@proweb.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AE97B12.2F14FEC1@arl.army.mil>
Hello Douglas,
Friday, April 27, 2001, 3:41:44 PM, you wrote:
DAG> Boyd Roberts wrote:
>> john mackin used to have this theory called:
>> estimating by three's
>> you think it'll take 1 hour, so say 3 hours.
DAG> My boss when I worked in a small interactive graphics software
DAG> house had made a similar observation. However, it doesn't work
DAG> right unless you make an honest stab at estimating how long you
DAG> really think the job should take. *Then* the supervisor should
DAG> multiply by three.
works good if you know he does it and you get your multiplication in
first
--
Best regards,
matt mailto:matt@proweb.co.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-27 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-12 14:51 forsyth
2001-04-23 8:45 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-24 9:01 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-24 12:28 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-24 14:28 ` Re[2]: " matt
2001-04-25 1:52 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-25 2:37 ` William Josephson
2001-04-25 3:25 ` Richard Elberger
2001-04-26 16:40 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-27 0:08 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-27 14:41 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-27 15:13 ` matt [this message]
2001-04-27 16:55 ` Sam Ducksworth
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