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An older engineer once told me a valuable tl;dr approach to engineering estimates: whatever number you arrive at, multiply it by two.
by kickingvegas 12y ago
An older engineer once told me a valuable tl;dr approach to engineering estimates: whatever number you arrive at, multiply it by two.
- zwischenzug 12y ago"Six to eight weeks" was the default estimate my project managers gave for anything above trivial. Long enough to make the task seem difficult, not too long to scare off the client.
- twic 12y agoDo you work at Stack Exchange? http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta#19514 http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes...
- zwischenzug 12y agoHa! This was the norm at my corp over 10 years ago. Heh.
- evan_ 12y agoThat older engineer... was it Scotty? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708764/quotes?item=qt0349432 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708764/quotes?item=qt0349432
- martininmelb 12y agoAn even older engineer once told me: Even after you've doubled the estimate, it will still take twice as long as you estimate.
- Pxtl 12y agoDouble it with each layer. Double your estimate for each individual task, then when you've got the whole Gantt chart built for the iteration, double that.