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At that point, you are estimating EFFORT, not time. Software engineers are REALLY GOOD at estimating effort. The fact that they translate to time (simple == sev
by withinboredom 2y ago
At that point, you are estimating EFFORT, not time. Software engineers are REALLY GOOD at estimating effort. The fact that they translate to time (simple == several days) is ephemeral.
- lomase 2y agoI think that is how Agile is suposed to work. The programmer stimates how hard the task is relative to other task he has done.
- withinboredom 2y agoRight, but they were asked to estimate TIME, not EFFORT.
- kristiandupont 2y ago>Software engineers are REALLY GOOD at estimating effort. The most common problem with estimates is hidden or forgotten complexity, which makes both time and "effort", whatever that means, go up.