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Message #00196
Re: Notes from call with Francis
On Jul 26, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Brad Crittenden wrote:
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> On Jul 26, 2011, at 17:16 , Graham Binns wrote:
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>> On 26 July 2011 21:36, Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I expect it would be noticeably cheaper to rent the hotel and drive to the beach, so maybe we could really sell it…well, I'm still skeptical.
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>> We'd be noticeably more productive, too, I suspect (when we did mini
>> Bugs sprints in Norwich - to accomodate Gavin's family commitments -
>> (I felt that) we consistently got more done than in the bigger,
>> holed-up-in-Vilnius-in-February sprints. YMMV).
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>> I appreciate his point, but I'm tempted to argue that we're better
>> doing requirements elicitation on an as-you-need-it basis rather than
>> hanging around at the Lexington office all the time.
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>> Also, wouldn't it be cheaper just to fly Danilo and I over to
>> Raleigh-Durham and have the three of you use whatever means of
>> transport necessary to get to the sprint location than fly us all up
>> to Boston for a week?
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> Well RDU-BOS round trip is currently $185. Driving from Raleigh to Nags Head round trip is 450 miles * $0.51 = $229.50. So, let's not make that argument!
$229.50 / 2.5 (two cars with two or three people each) == 91.80. If we squish together, $229.50/5 == $45.90. :-)
Gary
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