Re: Time estimate for writing manual

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>

> Was there a better way to handle it? I thought of posting my question
> before I made the comment, but that was yesterday and I concluded that
> I'd just see what you all would say after the deed was done.

When I was consulting/contracting, I would tell prospective clients that
I needed to see the product in use, even if it was in alpha form, before
I could provide an estimate of hours required  Usually that meant going
to the client facility for a demo, but in some cases they just sent me
copies
to self-demo (if there was no working prototype, I could estimate from a
copy of the product spec, but in those cases I always padded the
estimate like crazy and made sure the contract provided for re-estimate
when the inevitable feature creep happened).

Gene Kim-Eng


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