(as revealed here! Don't hesitate to reserve your copy today!)
In this handy notebook, you learn the key to successful project estimation:
[a] sum up your estimated task time(s)
[b] double the result
[c] use the next longest time reference (or order of magnitude)
...it's just that simple! Got an incoming project that looks like it will take 2 hours? Excellent: using Mr. Scott's formula for success, you let them know it will take (2 * 2 = 4 hours days) 4 days to complete it!
I'd love to tell you that this was a joke, and it was originally intended as such, but it has taken on new life, here in Engineering. Rarely will a project, complete with unforseen overruns, overtake your initial estimate. And nobody around here gets to work on a single project at a time, anyway, so these estimates actually resemble actual performance!
As outlandish as it may seem, if you really think about it, it really does apply... |
