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I got pretty decent at software estimation at my last job. I would spend an entire day "pre-programming" everything in my head, estimating the length of each l
by seph-reed 5y ago
I got pretty decent at software estimation at my last job.
I would spend an entire day "pre-programming" everything in my head, estimating the length of each little chunk, adding them up, then multiply by ~2.
It worked for me. But I still would never trust the estimates.
- d6ba56c039d9 5y agoAnother angle. 'How long did a project this size take last time?'. As an aside, years ago I worked at a company that did thorough (and inaccurate) bottom-up schedules. I got dinged for not using quarter hour accuracy in the various task estimates.
- p0nce 5y agoInstead of 2: Multiply by π for new kind of projects. Multiply by φ for known projects.