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Subject:Ratio of development to documentation? From:Michelle Tuohy <Michelle -dot- Tuohy -at- PEREGRINE -dot- IE> Date:Fri, 14 May 1999 15:48:17 +0100
i think this is one of those "how long is a piece of string" questions, but
my development manager is asking me for documentation time as a percentage
of the overall development time on each project. i don't know how to go
about finding/estimating such a ratio.