- Take your best estimate of how long it will take
- Double it
- Go up to the next unit of time
Example: 3 days »» 6 weeks
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Steve Friedl is a software and network security consultant in Southern California. He has been a C and UNIX developer since 1981 and has an exceptionally broad background in this area. Some areas of expertise include:
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Whenever hiring a software developer as a contractor... Always go fixed price.
Posted by: Robert | April 12, 2009 at 08:44 AM
Sounds like an accurate way to do estimations.
Posted by: Alex Chan | April 17, 2009 at 08:03 PM