Re: Estimation of the number of pages to be written per day?

Subject: Re: Estimation of the number of pages to be written per day?
From: Ed Wurster <glassnet -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:20:46 -0500


> I saw an earlier quote that mentioned 2.5 hours per page. Over time, with
> some of the issues covered in the calculator, that quote has proven a little
> aggressive, particularly with geographically disperse work teams.
>
> As with any tool, the calculator is a little one dimensional, not taking
> into account a good product development life cycle. If you don't have that
> (which JoAnn spends considerable time in her book explaining), you won't
> even make it in 5 hours per page.

Sherry,

Years ago I picked up something from experienced illustrators as they
estimated how long it would take to produce camera-ready artwork. Each
piece of art had to fit in a category of simple, medium or complex.
With modern docs, you need more categories obviously. But a very
simple model can be constructed for bids.

If you are an outsource, then your bidding model takes one road. If
you manage docs in-house, another set of adjustments is included.

Ed

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