[Work] Man Day Estimates

Man, think you know project mgmt? Think again.

Think you got some trivial stuff covered, or knew really well or assumed it was a piece of cake ..... until you are consistently challenged on those fundamentals. Then you realize how much more improvement there can be.

And all this few day's worth of headaching was purely on man days estimation. It is interesting noting the different way people process and assume; and correspondingly how diff PM's man days will deviate so widely from each other.

Which in turn makes me understand more why some old foggies I knew from PMI back a few years asked a question - "Is project management a science or an art?" with a twinkle in their eyes.

At the end of it all - its a learning process. Now back to crunching man day estimates.