RE: Documentation estimates

Subject: RE: Documentation estimates
From: "Evans, Diane L (Rosetta)" <diane_evans -at- merck -dot- com>
To: "CapDev Communications" <capdev -dot- communications -at- gmail -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:34:06 -0800

>My understanding is that
>the metric used by a global software and o/s provider is 6 pages/hour;
the
>metric used by a leading systems developer in Silicon Valley is 9
>pages/hour; and the metric suggested by CMS is 1.5 pages/hour.

This can't possibly be right. On the average, I take 2 hours per page
if I am starting from scratch. I can do a 70 page document in a day (9
pages/hour), but only if it includes a lot of cut-n-paste and no
formatting.

Diane Evans
Requirements Analyst
ASQ CSQE
Rosetta Inpharmatics
206-802-6560


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