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Subject:Re: Estimating a Project - A real lulu From:Melonie Holliman <melonie -dot- holliman -at- AMD -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 6 Aug 1999 14:57:24 -0500
Howdy,
I have an old axiom for you--each project has three desired aspects: high
quality,
speedy delivery, and low cost. Choose two.
I would even go farther to say, if you want one of these to be extreme (like
VERY
speedy delivery or VERY low cost) you will sacrifice both of the others.
If it were my client, I would say "I can _probably_ do it but it is gonna
cost
you big time and the quality will be atrocious."
Melonie R. Holliman
Technical Writer
CPD Marketing
Advanced Micro Devices
> -----Original Message-----
> From: temoore -at- BELLSOUTH -dot- NET [SMTP:temoore -at- BELLSOUTH -dot- NET]
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 2:32 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Estimating a Project - A real lulu
>
> I had a client contact me yesterday to discuss doing a training manual.
> I have exactly 8 days to finish the manual and get it to the printer.
> Here are the details:
>
<snipped!>
>
> By my own personal estimates, this can't be done in 8 days. What do you
> guys think? Have any of you had a similar deadline? What was your
> experience and the result? Were you successful?
>
>
