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The best estimation technique I've seen is ROPE: Realistic, Optimistic, Pessimistic, Equilibristic. It's fast to ballpark, effective solo or with teams, great
by jph 5y ago
The best estimation technique I've seen is ROPE: Realistic, Optimistic, Pessimistic, Equilibristic. It's fast to ballpark, effective solo or with teams, great for PMs and managers, and able to go directly into critical chain scheduling or monte carlo simulations.
https://github.com/SixArm/sixarm_project_management_rope_estimate https://github.com/SixArm/sixarm_project_management_rope_est...
- jameshart 5y agoWas the name chosen because four numbers provides exactly enough ROPE for the product owner to hang you with?
- jph 5y agoHa! The name ROPE is because a rope is a group of strands, braided together into a larger and stronger form with higher tensile strength. With ROPE, the four numbers combine together to create a larger and stronger estimate. I do estimates for clients, and ROPE provides a way for each stakeholder to see that estimates are really ranges of probabilities.