{"id":49,"date":"2008-09-13T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newblog.anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2008-09-13T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T17:37:00","slug":"is-time-equal-to-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/is-time-equal-to-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Time equal to Money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In physics, energy and mass are bound by the speed of light squared.&nbsp; What makes it the speed of light?&nbsp; Well, actually the speed of light is relative to time, and constant, really, we are using time to equate energy and mass.&nbsp; Back to project management\/design\/development\/etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Can we just simply say that Money = Time?&nbsp;&nbsp; Well that doesnt seem right.&nbsp; It can&#8217;t be that simple or clean.&nbsp; So how do they actually relate?&nbsp; We need a co-efficient of some sort.&nbsp; How about complexity?&nbsp; The problem here is that complexity isn&#8217;t a constant.&nbsp; In fact, both money and time are more constant than complexity.&nbsp; Prior to Einstien though, the assumption was that Mass was a constant.&nbsp; He flipped that around and made the speed of light the constant.&nbsp; So maybe complexity is a factor of a relationship between a constant (features?) and Time and Money.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe we take features and make it the speed of light.&nbsp; Now we square it and get complexity. Now we have Complexity = (Features Squared).&nbsp; Lets use money for energy because after all, money is the damage, right?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Money = Time * (Features Squared)<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p>Of course that whole &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineering-Anniversary\/dp\/0201835959\">Mythical Man Month<\/a>&#8221; thing throws a hell of a wrench into the pie.&nbsp; So does the argument that python is more productive than java (or c#, Perl, php, Assembler, C++).&nbsp; But in the end, if we correct for productivity (people AND technology platform), then we get pretty close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In physics, energy and mass are bound by the speed of light squared.&nbsp; What makes it the speed of light?&nbsp; Well, actually the speed of light is relative to time, and constant, really, we are using time to equate energy and mass.&nbsp; Back to project management\/design\/development\/etc&#8230; Can we just simply say that Money = Time?&nbsp;&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqbc8-N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anonymousmanager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}