{"id":293,"date":"2022-09-12T22:32:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T20:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ackeeblockchain.com\/blog\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=293"},"modified":"2022-09-12T22:32:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T20:32:31","slug":"engineering-days","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/ackee.xyz\/blog\/glossary\/engineering-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Engineering days (sometimes referred to as man-days) are used to measure how much work is required to perform some task (in our case, the task is usually a smart contract <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ackeeblockchain.com\/blog\/glossary\/audit\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">audit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). One engineering day is equivalent to one person working for a day (i.e., 8 hours).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If one of our audits has a total time donation of six engineering days, it could be that:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we have one auditor working on the audit for six days;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we have two auditors working together for three days each, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineering days (sometimes referred to as man-days) are used to measure how much work is required to perform some task (in our case, the task is usually a smart contract audit). One engineering day is equivalent to one person working for a day (i.e., 8 hours). 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