Man-month

Quick meaning: Man-month is a noun meaning 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.

Meaning

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.

Example Sentences

Holonyms: man-year, person-year

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• man-months

Synonyms for man-month

Depending on context, synonyms include person-month.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include person-month, manhour, man day, month, monthling, moneth.

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