man-month

English

Noun

man-month (plural man-months)

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.
Synonym: person-month
- 1980, Richard S. Palais, “Message from the Chairman”, in TUGboat‎, volume 1, number 1, page 5:
  Experience seems to indicate that developing such a TeX interface for a new output device takes on the order of one man-month.

Translations

amount of work

Finnish: henkilötyökuukausi
French: mois-homme (fr) m
Japanese: 人月 (ningetsu)

See also

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