I remember reading in a collection of Murphy's Law books a "rule of
thumb" for estimating how long a project was going to take. When an
engineer/programmer gave you a time estimate, you doubled the quantity
and increased the time measure to the next higher unit. For example:

"Ten minutes, tops" ==> 20 hours, actual.
"12 hours" ==> 24 days
"Three weeks" ==> 6 months

So, by that rule, Derk's original estimate of "1-2 days" equates to
"2-4 weeks".

Let us hope that this is one of the few times that Murphy has over-
estimated.

On Feb 3, 7:27 am, Blott <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the future you should always estimate too high, then when you get
> it done much faster, people will think you're a miracle worker.

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