OT - estimating man-hours for a development project

[Sasha Borodin]

To follow up my 'pricing structure' question of earlier this week...

How do the pro's estimate the amount of time a particular project will take?
I know you'll say 'experience'.  But is there any kind of a rough formula?
How much do you usually pad your estimate to take into account any
unexpected turns?

I understand this is subjective and based on many factors.  Again, I'm just
looking for a starting point.

Thank you,

-Sasha 


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RE: OT - estimating man-hours for a development project

[Chappell, Simon P]

I figure out how long something will take in "perfect engineering days" i.e 
uninterupted time with no interuptions and no external requests and then triple it. 
(Really. :-)

Simon

>-Original Message-
>From: Sasha Borodin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>To follow up my 'pricing structure' question of earlier this week...
>
>How do the pro's estimate the amount of time a particular 
>project will take?
>I know you'll say 'experience'.  But is there any kind of a 
>rough formula?
>How much do you usually pad your estimate to take into account any
>unexpected turns?
>
>I understand this is subjective and based on many factors.  
>Again, I'm just
>looking for a starting point.
>
>Thank you,
>
>-Sasha 
>
>
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