Saturday, April 23, 2005
Blowing through the work
I'm amazed. I got through a project that I had estimated at 15–20 hours in four hours today. Maybe I'm just getting more conservative in my estimates—in this case way over-conservative. I've noticed that a lot lately that I'm getting billable work out well under estimates. Maybe it's an overreaction to past estimates where I way underestimated.
Well, I have the same project to do on the other site, which should be quite a bit more complicated, so we'll see how things average out between the two. But it is heartening that I seem to have outgrown my old tendency to grossly underestimate. Although it might be another example of how much quicker things go when I don't keep getting interrupted for some hot new idea du jour.
Tomorrow will be an uncharacteristic day away from the computer, as I go to my son and daughter's track meet. Oh, I'll take some non-computer stuff to look over during some of the down times, but it will be nice to have an actual reason to take a day off, guilt-free. But I'm sure I'll be back at the computer for a while after the meet... Is this still sounding like a day off to you?
The pendulum is swinging back toward One Stop again. I've done a couple of days of billable work, now I'm feeling that I'm letting the building work (as in building my own business) get away from me. Well, just gotta keep plugging along.
Jeff
I'm amazed. I got through a project that I had estimated at 15–20 hours in four hours today. Maybe I'm just getting more conservative in my estimates—in this case way over-conservative. I've noticed that a lot lately that I'm getting billable work out well under estimates. Maybe it's an overreaction to past estimates where I way underestimated.
Well, I have the same project to do on the other site, which should be quite a bit more complicated, so we'll see how things average out between the two. But it is heartening that I seem to have outgrown my old tendency to grossly underestimate. Although it might be another example of how much quicker things go when I don't keep getting interrupted for some hot new idea du jour.
Tomorrow will be an uncharacteristic day away from the computer, as I go to my son and daughter's track meet. Oh, I'll take some non-computer stuff to look over during some of the down times, but it will be nice to have an actual reason to take a day off, guilt-free. But I'm sure I'll be back at the computer for a while after the meet... Is this still sounding like a day off to you?
The pendulum is swinging back toward One Stop again. I've done a couple of days of billable work, now I'm feeling that I'm letting the building work (as in building my own business) get away from me. Well, just gotta keep plugging along.
Jeff
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