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For future reference, don't plan your schedule by looking at the tasks you need to complete and thinking about how long each will take you. Plan your schedule
by khafra 16y ago
For future reference, don't plan your schedule by looking at the tasks you need to complete and thinking about how long each will take you. Plan your schedule by looking at how long similar projects have taken similar teams.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_class_forecasting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_class_forecasting
- emmett 16y agoBut we've never done a similar project before. We're pretty good at estimating how long it takes to build websites now, because we've done it so many times before. We're not good at estimating ground-up builds of entirely new mobile products, because we've never done that before. We were guilty of being overly optimistic for sure. When you're doing something new, you just have to be really really pessimistic.