Oh God, Please Kill Me

“I need accurate timings for the platform migration,” cried Orange Stupid.

“Certainly,” I said, “We’re realistically looking at 4 man-days for the dev database, 4 for the test database, a further four to hook them up to the front end interfaces. We’ll then need somewhere in the region of 8 man days for the search database as we’re not entirely sure how difficult that will be to integrate. At the end, I’d image we’ll need somewhere in the area of ten days testing before decommissioning the old one.”

“I see I see I see,” bumbled Orange Stupid. “So it’s imperative that it’s finished by Wednesday at the latest.”