Man-month

Definitions

One person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.

Equivalents

Examples

“Holonyms: man-year, person-year”

“Meronyms: man-hour, person-hour < man day, person-day”

“In project management, there is always another dimbulb who will ask⟳ whether the relationship of man-months to calendar months is such that the schedule⟳ can be cut⟳ in half by doubling the headcount. The standard joke for disabusing this nonsense involves an expedited pregnancy lasting four and a half months instead of nine.”

“Experience⟳ seems to indicate⟳ that developing such a TeX interface for a new output device takes on the order⟳ of one man-month.”

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