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by lrem 1099 days ago
1 month of your own concentrated work? 2 quarters easily, because at this scale:

- You’ll get a bunch stakeholders each requesting a different format of progress reporting.

- You’ll get pulled into dealing with a small but disruptive emergency that requires unique expertise.

- A dependency will change in a way incompatible with your work in progress.

- You’ll hand off the half done project to the new hire.

- You’ll need to rediscover what the project is about after the new hire hands it back.