Comment by spmvg
7 months ago
Thanks!
I like your suggestion. I was doubting a lot between hours and days and eventually settled on days because I noticed product managers (in bigco) making rough estimates based on "fractions of FTEs over a quarter", so days are granular enough for me to get my point across, but maybe people prefer to calculate in hours... I think it shouldn't be so hard to make hours/days configurable in the "Effort" modal.
Dump of related thoughts: - Should hours vs. days be a global setting? Or per maintenance plan? - How many hours are in a day? 8? More? Another config? - People can put fractions of a day (like 0.125). Maybe this is fine already?
I think Joels has it right in his assessment of hours vs days: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/29/painless-software-...
In another piece somewhere he also states, that the engineer working on the thing should estimate the hours, because everyone has a different skillset and that then relates to the task and how long it takes.
This is a really good find, thanks for that. It's from 2000 and still relevant. Added an issue to support hours: https://github.com/spmvg/open_it_maintenance_planner/issues/...