Re: Planning & time mgmnt for a techwriter

[Sandy Harris <sandy -at- storm -dot- ca>]

John Cornellier wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to work out how much time I can allocate to my various techwriting
> projects in 2002.
> 
> So I'm working on a formula as follows:
> The number of working days left in the year
> minus my holidays
> minus 20 per cent for ...
> 
> You get the idea. ... What do the personnel textbooks say?

One rule of thumb I know was used in some personnel dep'ts (Canadian gov't
some years ago) was 220 working days a year for the average employee. 52
weeks - annual vacation = 49 weeks or 245 days. Knock off the statutory
holidays, allow for illness, etc. and you're at 220.

This does not account for things like bugfixing, training, admin, ...

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