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"Can you build a work schedule planner windows application for us? We want to import jobs from excel, automatically schedule them by about 10 rules, generate a year calendar with them and also an export as excel for another tool to import it.
We would have to use it on Friday" - Wednesday morning meeting

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    That's exactly the work that I kinda did last decade for a living. Such stuff. Office automation using web interfaces. Fintech mainly. Nicely described.
  • 0
    Sure. Friday in 8-12 months. You got it.
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    I mean, depending on the rules they aren't that far off, a quick shitty scheduling script packaged as a winforms app would take a week assuming that the app is allowed to bail in case the specific case is very difficult rather than interactively resolving the problem.

    - One day for I/O, excel can be a bitch sometimes

    - Two days for analyzing the business rules, cross-referencing them with Wikipedia's collection of allocator algos and designing a custom algorithm that does the task decently well

    - One day for UI, testing, relevant devops work and the like

    - One day margin
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    Oh I misread, are you supposed to _build a calendar as part of the app_? That is not measured in weeks.
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