RE: Striving To Increase The Page Count Was: Estimation of the number of pages...

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

> From: bounce-techwr-l-137490 -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com 
> [mailto:bounce-techwr-l-137490 -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf 
> Of Tony Markos
> 
> 
> Purposefully high page counts happen often in TW projects.  
> As I stated in a recent post, at a very well attended local 
> STC "discussion" meeting on estimating, the almost universal 
> consensus was that estimating is to be based upon page count. 
> My (sole) attempt to challenge the sacred cow of estimating
> based on page count was promptely cut off.    
> 

Project planning, which is what you seem to be describing, is a slightly
different concept, though, Tony. One can estimate how large a document needs
to be to cover the material -- one must, don't you think, do get a
project-level picture of things? This a different issue than a short-term
measurement of TW output, I think. This means that in different
circumstances, an estimate of output is different and depends on the
purposes for which the estimate is used.


Bonnie Granat / Cambridge, MA
   http://www.GranatEdit.com 



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