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Subject:RE: Document Wildly Until Someone Blows A Whistle From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:01:33 -0500
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> For good estimates, you just don't estimate. The first thing,
> and the real boggie, is properly scoping out the project and
> then "chunking" the system into right-size pieces (i.e.
> relatively small and equal size pieces).
Different topics should not be equal to others in size. You need to devote
more space to more complex functions. In my response of the other day, I
spoke of the "scoping out" of a document by writers of the respective
features and concepts before project estimates are made, so you are not the
only person speaking of this.
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