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in thread PM Confessional

That reminds me of something a senior engineer told me about 20 years ago on the topic of estimating effort: double your first number and go the the next larger unit. So if your first reaction is 30 seconds, better say 60 minutes. Four hours is more likely to be 8 days, and so on. I'm still crap at estimating individual task effort, but I'm much better at total project cost at least.

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Re^3: PM Confessional
by fullermd (Vicar) on Jan 17, 2011 at 00:11 UTC

    These sort of rules of thumb sound half-funny half-useful, until the day comes that you apply them and still wind up behind an 8-ball...

    Er, not that that's ever happened to me, three times in a row, or anything. No siree...

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Re^3: PM Confessional
by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Jan 18, 2011 at 15:47 UTC

    Ours was multiply by two and add 40.

    --MidLifeXis

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