Monday, December 15, 2008

Simple Software Scheduling

How about scheduling this way? When you're in the SWAG (Scientific Wild-Ass Guess) stage (or even later), just pick one of the following for each task:

1 day
1 week
1 month
1 quarter
forever

Note that there is no "year" category. If you think something is going to take a year you're not scheduling at the right granularity (and maybe even a quarter is too much).