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Q: What's An IBM Man-year? A: 730 People Trying To Get A Project Done Before Noon.
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Q: What's an IBM man-year?
A: 730 people trying to get a project done before noon.
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Q: What's an IBM man-year? A: 730 people trying to get a project done before noon.
Man year: 730 people working feverishly until noon.
Quote #34 Q: What is IBM's definition of a man year?
A: 720 programmers trying to finish the job before lunch....
How does a project get to be a year late? ... One day at a time.
- Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month...
Never get out of bed before noon. -- Charles Bukowski
Q's Law: No matter what stage of completion one reaches in a project, the cost of the remainder of the project remains constant.
No matter what stage of completion one reaches in a project, the cost of the remainder of the project remains constant.
-- Q's Law...
Q might have done the right thing for the wrong reason, perhaps we needed a good kick in our complacency to get us ready for what's ahead.
-- Picard to Guinan, "Q-Who?", stardate 42761.3...