Holonyms: man-year, person-year
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Man-month
Synonyms for "man-month" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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5 translations across 5 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 人月 noun (amount of work)
Finnish
1 entries- henkilötyökuukausi noun (amount of work)
French
1 entries- mois-homme noun (amount of work)
Greek
1 entries- ανθρωπομήνας noun (amount of work)
Japanese
1 entries- 人月 noun (amount of work)
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Meronyms: man-hour, person-hour < man day, person-day
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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.
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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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