On 6/30/07, Graham Dobson <grahamdo AT allstream DO.T net> wrote:
> Basically what he seems to be doing is inputting factored weights for actors
We had a similar system at a previous job, named the "Bill-O-Meter."
It was the carboard box top from a carton of paper, with a spinner
arrow attached to it. A circle was drawn, and cut up into pie slices
labedl 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, 60, 70, 80, 125 and so forth. When a client
wanted to know how long the job would take, how many billable hours
were involved or what the cost of the job was, the consultant would
spin the Bill-O-Meter and apply the correct units of measure (weeks,
months, hundreds of dollars, hundreds of hours, fortnights, furlongs,
etc.) to the result. We found the numbers correlated with the
length/cost/duration of the project as accurately as any estimate we
ever worked with, and was a much quicker ROI.
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Ted Roche
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