Pressure, Expressed in Initial Development Time

def Initial Development Time: In software development projects, initial development time (IDT) is the length of time it takes from the project's first line of code until the business derives notable value from it.

I've done plenty of projects in my career, some with an IDT of a few months and some with an IDT of a year or more. Based on those projects I've decided that I like the following equation to express the pressure felt by a team at any given moment during the IDT.

pressure =