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Estimation is often challenging and sometimes impossible, but there are in fact many opportunities to deliver reliable estimates. If you'd genuinely like to le
by swatcoder 8y ago
Estimation is often challenging and sometimes impossible, but there are in fact many opportunities to deliver reliable estimates.
If you'd genuinely like to learn more about estimating software projects and when you can do so more or less reliably, Steve McConnell's Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art provides a great survey of techniques.
https://www.amazon.com/Software-Estimation-Demystifying-Developer-Practices/dp/0735605351 https://www.amazon.com/Software-Estimation-Demystifying-Deve...
- afarrell 8y agoI bought that book about 4 years ago in an attempt to try to learn how to produce estimates for the sorts of tasks I might do in a given day as a software developer. I read through the first third of it and then skimmed the rest. Unless my memory has wildly deceived me, that book doesn't contain advice on how to do so. Rather, it assumes you know how to estimate ticket-level work and talks about how to estimate on the scale of months or quarters.