Hunting The Muse

Had my first brush

Had my first brush with going over an hours estimate today. I first estimated (informally) 30 hours for this project, and then we had some extra coordination time, which made me want to say 45 hours, although she could only agree to 40. Then as I was going through the inherited code base I found lots of problems and told her that for an extra 20 hours that could be categorized in the separate "maintenance" agreement she has with her client, I could rework some things and make it work better. Well, she approved 10. So that was 50 total. So I worked hard and kept on finding bugs that were small in the previous version of the application but would have been big bugs in the stuff I was writing, so I kept fixing them. My part of the project is done now, before bugfixing, and I'm at 51 hours.

Looks like it's working out okay though - I kept her posted as I was going and it looks like the extra hours will be approved. Posted by Curt at July 8, 2002 05:02 PM