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Re: Scheduling and Parkinson's Law
Posted in Weblogs Forum, Aug 31, 2005 2:48 PM
I love rule of thumb estimation sayings. My personal favorite was "Double the gut estimate, convert to the next larger units, and add 1 of the original units" So 1 day becomes 1 week plus a day. One hour becomes 2 (work) days plus an hour, etc. I found this to be useful because you immediately start thinking "how the heck could it take so...
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