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I feel like this is misleading. There’s no magic bullet for software estimation. McConnell’s book talks about various techniques but the takeaway is that you
by tra3 7y ago
I feel like this is misleading. There’s no magic bullet for software estimation. McConnell’s book talks about various techniques but the takeaway is that you know very little at the beginning of the project. There various techniques for estimation but you can never get away from the essential unknown unknowns.
- mcv 7y agoExactly. To make accurate estimates of how long it's going to take, you need to know how the team estimates the complexity of the work that still needs to be done, how they estimated the past, and how much they actually did in the past. In this particular team, with this way of working. Only then do you have the information to make a halfway reliable estimate. Without that, it's just going to be guess work.