Textulization was Re: Documentation estimates

[Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

The one pager was a written scope statement for a large federal government software project.  Basically, I spent three weeks and 4 days doing a large data flow diagram and then about a day to textualize the the data flow diagram.
   
  Hey, I think I just invented a word:-)
   
  Richard Lewis

John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
  > For the one-page-per-month assignment, it was impossible to know
> ahead of time how much time was necessary. (Actually, I initially
> estimated 3 months per page.) 

Gotta be honest...I can't conceive of talking a full month to write a
page of content.



John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."


 
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