Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Oof... Depending on your customer, the technical aspects of solving a give problem will account for the least amount of the actual time to identify the problem, come up with a fix, test and deploy it.
As a multi-discipline IT consultant, "how long" has always been nebulous. At a prior employer, when our partner-liaison/PM would ask the dreaded "how long" question, my first reply was always the question, "is the customer an information/technology services, financial services, medical, non-profit, state government, federal-civilian or DoD/IC?" I had rule-of-thumb time-multiplier scale that each segment was slotted onto. Depending on her answer to my "who" question, I'd use that time-multiplier scale to provide the appropriate total delivery-time for any given solution/task. The scale was actually pretty ridiculous on how aggressively the time-dilation curve would slope as you moved away from the IT services end of the scale.
Oof... Depending on your customer, the technical aspects of solving a give problem will account for the least amount of the actual time to identify the problem, come up with a fix, test and deploy it.
As a multi-discipline IT consultant, "how long" has always been nebulous. At a prior employer, when our partner-liaison/PM would ask the dreaded "how long" question, my first reply was always the question, "is the customer an information/technology services, financial services, medical, non-profit, state government, federal-civilian or DoD/IC?" I had rule-of-thumb time-multiplier scale that each segment was slotted onto. Depending on her answer to my "who" question, I'd use that time-multiplier scale to provide the appropriate total delivery-time for any given solution/task. The scale was actually pretty ridiculous on how aggressively the time-dilation curve would slope as you moved away from the IT services end of the scale.
Wow