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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:06:58 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:55:08 +0100
Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 06 September 2011 23:53:16 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > Ninety-Ninety Rule Of Project Schedules - The first ninety percent
> > of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten
> > percent takes the other ninety percent of the time.
> 
> Where I worked we used to say the first 50% of the project takes the
> first 90% of the time, and the other50% of the project takes the
> other 90% of the time.
> 

Our rule of thumb for estimated schedules is to get the worst possible
estimate for how long it will take.

Then multiply by pi

-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com