man-month

English

Noun

man-month (plural man-months)

1. One person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.

   Synonym: person-month

   Holonyms: man-year, person-year

   Meronyms: man-hour, person-hour, < man day, person-day

   • 1980, Richard S. Palais, “Message from the Chairman”, in TUGboat‎^[1], volume 1, number 1, page 5:

     Experience seems to indicate that developing such a TeX interface for a new output device takes on the order of one man-month.

Translations

amount of work

• Finnish: henkilötyökuukausi
• French: mois-homme (fr) m
• Japanese: 人月 (ningetsu)