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Albannach</author>
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That reminds me of something a senior engineer told me about 20 years ago on the topic of estimating effort: double your first number and go the the next larger unit.  So if your first reaction is 30 seconds, better say 60 minutes.  Four hours is more likely to be 8 days, and so on.  I'm still crap at estimating individual task effort, but I'm much better at total project cost at least.

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I'd like to be able to assign to an luser
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