Re: Another term for Manhours

Subject: Re: Another term for Manhours
From: Fabien Vais <phantoms -at- POP -dot- TOTAL -dot- NET>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 18:12:34 -0400

We've been using "people-days" to mean the number of days required for
someone (a writer) to complete a certain task. It semmes to work well, and
no one has ever complained yet.

Fabien Vais
phantoms -at- total -dot- net

At 02:15 PM 6/8/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Okay, since you all were so helpful with my GUI problem,
>I have another one for you.
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>I've convinced the programmers that _man-hours_ is a term
>that we need to exterminate. They are all for it, but we've run
>in to a problem. In the screen design, we have space
>limitations that restrict us to nine characters. (Staff-hours
>doesn't work. Staff also implies an employee, and some
>of the work is done by outside companies.)
>
>Anyone run into this and have a slick solution?
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>Tiburon, Inc. (510)447-4005 ext. 5521
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