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Subject:How to Estimate Project Time? From:Marilyn Gelman <gelman -at- SUN490 -dot- FDU -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 20 May 1994 23:01:18 GMT
My employers want me to give them an estimate of the time it will take me to
document our software tables.
The tables currently take up 80 pages of a manual. User instructions are
mixed in with reference material, sales material, and process analysis.
I've proposed to separate out the reference material for reference pages,
eliminate the sales material, create an overview page for each unit of three
topics, and then an instruction page for each topic. The material is in Word
Perfect 5.1 and I am a new FrameMaker user.
I suggested that we do one unit: reference page, user overview, and 3 topic
pages and judge time by that one unit. The company feels that is not a
reasonable approach. They want an estimate without any trial run.
Help. Please do not be too tired from the STC conference to help me out.
I will be working in Frame. The basic paragraphs tags are prepared.
The company will not tell me the maximum time they will allow before discon-
tinuing the project. How would you handle the estimating task?
