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My last project took less than a month, so did the one before that... but I also have projects that have been ongoing since I joined the company back in 1998 -- I just finished moving one module from BC5 (including a db library Btrv++) to VS2008...
So, some projects are over quickly, others will follow you to the grave, throwing dirt on your casket...
Projects never die, they'll just enter maintainance phase...
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Jonas Hammarberg wrote: others will follow you to the grave, throwing dirt on your casket...
and the bug reports are the maggots eating your corpse...
Software Zen: delete this;
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What bugs?
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Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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This survey is just limited to the last project only.
While this should be general.
Cause what happened - the last project that I worked take 6 months and the previous last took 1.5 yr.
IMO the question should be like this,
- The longest project ever you worked on. or something which is related to the longest time taken for a project to finish.
I think you also intended the same. 
Believe Yourself™  ™
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For me the largest was 4 years and 250K lines of code that I wrote. There were two other programmers on the project briefly that wrote about 3 libraries for the project that totaled about 25K lines. I can tell you that I spent so many 80 hour weeks on this to get everything working but I was young. This was my first large scale project.
The project was a telemammography system that included a lot of different technologies. SQL, ADO, COM, RAS, modems, TCP/IP, encryption, directdraw.
John
modified on Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:13 AM
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John M. Drescher wrote: 80 hour weeks on this to get everything working
 more than 15 hrs a day...
Great.
Just wondering how did you managed?
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Gandalf - The White wrote: more than 15 hrs a day...
That was mostly 7 days a week. But I did work a lot of 11AM to 7PM at work then 8PM to 3AM at home.
Gandalf - The White wrote: Just wondering how did you managed?
I cut the sleep to 4 to 5 hours + 30 minutes of vigorous exercise (treadmill) in the morning to wake up. Obviously I did not have a social life or a SO.
John
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I hope you were paid a lot for that kind of work!!!
Now you should be very important in your company or own some stocks
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Nothing over the base salary. Although when pay raises came along I have done pretty well.
John
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So what's stopping you from answering that way?
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I think you haven't read the Subject line. 
To remind you "It is a suggestion" to the author,
And by the way I have already given my answer that way.
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