Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:14:40 -0800
To: balloondeco@balloonhq.com
From: Mark Balzer <mbalzer@balloonhq.com>
Subject: Re: What would you do?

>I have been in simular situations (both being hired and also doing the
>hiring) where the job escalated to more labour and time I calculated.


We have a rule of thumb at wourk for estimating how long it will take 
to do a job that you've never done befoure: decide how long you think 
it ought to take, and then multiply by pi to find how long it will 
really take.  There's no theouretical basis for multiplying by pi, 
but moure often than not, it wourks.

I hope this helps,

Mark

ps - Sean, I've added "u"'s 'tween all my "or"'s to make you feel 
moure comfourtable reading my response.  Let me know if I'm doing it 
courrectly  :-)  :-)  :-)
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