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Re:ISO week date by spectramax on Thursday December 26, 2019 @12:44PM (#21885404)

Yep, huge companies like Intel use work-weeks for everything. For e.g. planning huge engineering projects was easy:

  - WW02-WW16: Conceptual Development
  - WW17: CDR
  - WW18-46: Detail Design
  - WW46-48: DDR
  - WW48-52: Validation/Testing
  - WW01-02: Ship to customer

So you could just now know how many weeks it took exactly for each phase:

  - [14] WW02-WW16: Conceptual Development
  - [1] WW17: CDR
  - [28] WW18-46: Detail Design
  - [2] WW46-48: DDR
  - [4] WW48-52: Validation/Testing
  - [2] WW01-02: Ship to customer

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Re:ISO week date by yitchelle on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:06PM (#21887641)

The ISO weeks are also big in automotive, especially on projects that span over a number of years. It automatically aligned most activities to have a duration measured in whole weeks. Sure, you can use fractional weeks, but then it gets really messy really quick.

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Re:ISO week date by inetknght on Thursday December 26, 2019 @01:58PM (#21885853)

I appreciate the usefulness of using weeks to measure time. But on a side note: less than 10% of time assigned for validation/testing and at the very end of a project is, in my experience, extremely ambitious.

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Re:ISO week date by spectramax on Thursday December 26, 2019 @03:17PM (#21886383)

Lol, please ignore the details, I just quickly wrote it down without thinking to just make a point :) But I agree, its a ridiculous timeline!

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