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Subject:Re: Project Estimating From:"Stephen D. Murphy" <sdmurphy -at- SHEPARD-PATTERSON -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 26 Aug 1998 07:28:02 -0400
Peter, I just bought "Managing Your Documentation Projects" by JoAnn
Hackos. It is a big book and I have not read it, but it was highly
recommended by many people. I don't know if it would help you (or just
give you more work to do!) but it might be worth a look.
Also, when I was at the STC Conference in Toronto, I attended a workshop
on "Estimating Scope and Schedule for a Help Project." I still have the
hand-out they gave me. There is (or at least, was) an outfit called
"KNOWware" that specialized in providing spreadsheets and other tools
for helping you do this. I don't have Web access here, or my copy of the
conference proceedings, but you might want to do a web search for
KNOWware and see what you come up with!
I'll be interested to hear what you discover...
Steve Murphy
Senior Technical Writer, Shepard-Patterson & Associates
2001 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 209
Arlington, Virginia
Voice: (703) 412-5072 Fax: (703) 412-5078
sdmurphy -at- shepard-patterson -dot- com http://www.shepard-patterson.com
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murphus -at- idsonline -dot- com http://www.murphus.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Pappas [SMTP:ppappas -at- SILK -dot- NET]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 3:50 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Project Estimating
>
> Can anyone offer any guidelines or rules of thumb or checklists for
> estimating the time required to complete print-based or on-line help
> projects?
>
> These formulas would be applied to new work and revisions to existing
> documentation. Graphics (screen captures) are usually required and
> some
> would be annotated.
>
> Many thanks.
>
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