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I don't buy into these blanket "industry" metrics at all. By the time
you get into the specifics of the requirements, you're estimating
using a completely different set of metrics anyway. Subject matter,
audience, definition of "page" or "topic", maturity of the thing
your're documenting, etc. all play into the time it takes to document
it. You can't sum all of that up into a blanket time-per-page metric
that works well enough for scoping a project or sprint requirement.
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Chris Despopoulos
> <despopoulos_chriss -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>> * If you accept it, provide a realistic estimate. Industry averages are around
>> 4 pages an hour.
>
>
> I thought it was 3 hours per page? Or are we talking about something
> totally different? I could probably see 4 topics per hour?
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