Murphy's Law on Estimating:

Original guess, next unit of measure times two.

So:
a 5 minute job takes 10 hours.
a 2 hour job takes 4 days
a 3 day job takes 6 weeks
a 2 week job takes 4 months
etc.

Probably a lot closer to accurate in most cases. ;)


Fred


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:39 AM, M Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:44 AM,
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > To bid fixed price, you'd better be good at your estimates.
> >
>
> and then double or triple them.....  <g>
>
> --
> Matt Jarvis
> Eugene, Oregon USA
>
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