Re: Quality from the Beginning: Better Estimates

2004-11-04 Thread Mark Stosberg
Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions for improving estimation. Based on this and other research, I expect to make a sort of "best practices" documentation for use at my small professional services firm. I'm thinking of including these key parts in it: 1. A checklist of things to consider w

estimating other people's work (was Re: Quality from the Beginning: Better Estimates)

2004-11-04 Thread Mark Stosberg
I also have a follow-up question: Another real world constraint is that sometimes by the time the client approves the quote, I'm involved in another project and it works better logistically to have another programmer complete the task (or help with it). Since programmers are not "plug and play

Re: estimating other people's work (was Re: Quality from the Beginning: Better Estimates)

2004-11-04 Thread Stevan Little
Mark, This can be an issue, however I think it is easily solved. 1) Use a mean between the most efficient and least efficient programmers times, since it could be either one (and probably both) who work on it. In many situations, your more efficient programmer is managing your less efficient pr

Re: special blocks tests fail on 5.8.0

2004-11-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:31:40PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I dont know if the code under test is wrong or the expected output. > > I run RH9, which uses Perl 5.8.0. I was getting a failure for > t/aspecial_blocks, indicating a difference in the expected output for a > CHECK {} block.