Johanna Rothman describes how she estimates the time she spends on the project work. It’s 3 or 4 days per week, 6-hour each. By the way, it results with average of 21 out of 40 hours of real work during a week – I guess that was the basis of the old unwritten rule to multiply first estimate by 2 to bring it close to reality. Of course the rule has nothing to do with real scheduling, but it’s used so often – not looking far away I used it not more than several hours ago. The rest of the week Johanna spends on mailing, answering calls, making arrangements etc.
It’s so typical for most positions, not only for project managers. Actually some time ago I made similar short, not extremely serious, analysis basing on developer’s work. However the point I came from was counting the time which is wasted. And, guess what, the result was that for a half of a day we’re unproductive. A coincidence?
Subscribe RSS feed
Follow on Twitter
Subscribe by email
