{"id":9,"date":"2004-05-28T19:58:58","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T18:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2007-07-05T00:52:19","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T23:52:19","slug":"hidden-slippage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Slippage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishdevelopers.com\/modules\/newbb\/viewtopic.php?topic_id=365&#038;forum=8200&#038;post_id=1509#forumpost1509\">this<\/a>, I followed through to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarkeching.com\/2004\/05\/nerdherding_for.html\">here<\/a>, which meant I ended up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdherding.net\/2004\/05\/28\/rule-of-thumb-for-hidden-slippage\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To summarise, Michael&#8217;s theory is this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The amount of undetected slippage that can occur on a task that was scheduled to take X, where X is in the range of one hour to one week, is X.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Generally, I&#8217;ve found this to be true.  However I have to augment it with my experience:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The amount of undetected slippage that can occur on a task that was scheduled to take X, where X is in the range of one hour to one week, is X.  However, as X gets closer to one week, the amount of undetected slippage that can occur on a task that was scheduled to take X, is actually X + X. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Those folks who don&#8217;t understand this are the same folks who will ask you if you have a &#8220;quick minute&#8221;.  A minute&#8217;s 60 seconds, no argument.  There&#8217;s no such thing as a quick minute that doesn&#8217;t last 60 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Hidden+Slippage\" rel=\"tag\">Hidden Slippage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/quick+minute\" rel=\"tag\">quick minute<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Harmer&#8217;s theory of hidden slippage&#8230;well, nearly&#8230;IMHO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-project-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}