OpenEuphoria

Re: For all 237...

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Nov 16, 1998
• 638 views

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:50:42 -0000, Bown, John <John.Bown at UK.ORIGIN-IT.COM>
wrote:

>>Given the requirements below, please estimate how long
>>it would take to prepare a working system:
>
>Every non-trivial program takes eight weeks. Possibly longer. That's
>from a lifetime of designing, coding and banging head on table in
>frustration. I'm counting using 7 hour days, 5 days a week.
>
>You didn't mention if documentation ( user manual etc ) was required.
>
Oops! Let's say no. The program should be self-evident as far
as the untrained user goes. We'll not worry about documenting
for the maintainer just now.

>My first task would be to ask for an *exact* specification of what's
>wanted  I understand what you were trying to say though.  Will be
>interesting to see what figures you come up with ... my bet's on 8
>weeks, failing that, 6 months.

I think this is as exact as you're likely to get from a client.
As an afterthought - just as in real life - this should be
something that can later be integrated into an on-line order
processing system without much effort.
People usually mention details such as this about halfway
thru the process.

Irv