I recently gave an estimate to someone which would take me 2 hours to do, and 4 to go through the change control process etc....
Of course that cant be taken at face value since im not allowed to estimate. My estimate is taken by a designer who produces several documents. They then budget for the following, designer, development lead, design lead, business analyst, tester, product owner, business tester.
I checked what my 2 hours work 4 hours testing etc... and its now an 80 hour effort. With 10 hours spent already producing the documentation and at least 3 levels of management discussing it.
For the record I implemented the change while giving the estimates and it ended up taking me an hour, but is still sitting in development.
Don't even get me started on how much time (weeks) effort (4 levels of management, weeks of meetings and at least 10 people involved) it took to get an additional 2 gig of RAM added to a production server which only had 2 gig to start with. I think the cost in man hours would have been at least $50,000 for a stick of ram which actually cost nothing as its already in the server and just needed to be enabled.
Oh on the Screen thing. I bought my own. 27" monitors can be had for $300 or less these days. Easier then trying to justify why a 24" would be advantageous to me and why dual 19" isn't as good.
I recently gave an estimate to someone which would take me 2 hours to do, and 4 to go through the change control process etc....
Of course that cant be taken at face value since im not allowed to estimate. My estimate is taken by a designer who produces several documents. They then budget for the following, designer, development lead, design lead, business analyst, tester, product owner, business tester.
I checked what my 2 hours work 4 hours testing etc... and its now an 80 hour effort. With 10 hours spent already producing the documentation and at least 3 levels of management discussing it.
For the record I implemented the change while giving the estimates and it ended up taking me an hour, but is still sitting in development.
Don't even get me started on how much time (weeks) effort (4 levels of management, weeks of meetings and at least 10 people involved) it took to get an additional 2 gig of RAM added to a production server which only had 2 gig to start with. I think the cost in man hours would have been at least $50,000 for a stick of ram which actually cost nothing as its already in the server and just needed to be enabled.
Oh on the Screen thing. I bought my own. 27" monitors can be had for $300 or less these days. Easier then trying to justify why a 24" would be advantageous to me and why dual 19" isn't as good.