How Much Time Do You Spend on a Project?

"I have had a consistent tendency to one, estimate that I would spend eight hours a day working on a given task," he says. "When you're measuring your time and you see that, it's pretty alarming" He estimates how long it takes him to write the code but doesn't account for other work like testing or writing documentation. 'You know, if you just estimate how long it's going to take you to write some code and you're not thinking of the 80% of the work around the code that you're notthinking of,' he says.