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There's a book Software Estimation Demystified by Steve Mcconnell

• skrebbel 9y ago
  Seconded, it's a good book. It doesn't only cover how to estimate but also, to some extent, whether to do so. Finally, it allows you to get very far just reading the first few chapters, a must-have for technical books IMO. My biggest takeaway from reading this book is that making point estimates is hard and often unnecessary. Saying "umm somewhere between 2 days and 2 weeks" is a much better response in many situations as it conveys to the listener that there's a high degree of uncertainty.