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Re: Quoting a user manual
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gene Kim-Eng)
Thu Oct 5 21:43:00 2017
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That would actually be my recommendation, but for Chris' hope that it
will lead to more work from the company. Although if being contacted
three weeks before the deadline is going to be SOP for this company,
more work from them might not be such a desirable thing.
Normally, an estimate for a short time project wouldn't be a big issue;
just take all the tasks for a normal project and cram the same hours
into a smaller time period. Except that Chris hasn't done an estimate
before.
Gene Kim-Eng
On 10/5/2017 6:19 PM, Shari Punyon wrote:
> If he spends an hour or two laying out what he'll need, how long it
> will take, and a creating a proposed timeline, he'll save himself a
> lot of heartache. And if he can't lay out a plan that will give him a
> reasonable chance of success and still get sleep, he maybe /should/
> pass on the job.
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