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Tool helping with estimations [closed]
I am looking for a tool supporting me with estimations.
What I would like to do is to specify a higher level task and break it into several smaller tasks. When a task is small enough, I could assign ...
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How can I estimate projects when I need to include a learning curve for new technology?
Sometimes, there are research and development projects where nothing is known in advance about the technology, concepts, and client. However, the manager still needs time estimates. What can I do to ...
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Good examples for teaching software estimation (size, schedule, effort)?
I'm going to be teaching a class that covers a broad brush of estimation techniques. I intend to cover absolute estimation techniques based on SLOC (e.g. Function Points, COCOMO II etc.) and ...
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Which user-story estimation technique is better? [closed]
I found two techniques for estimating user stories:
by the size of the story, which is unit-less
by the time estimate, which is measured by days
The first uses relative comparison between stories ...
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How to infer my Assumptions I based my time estimate on?
In an answer on how to make time estimates it is said to write down all your assumptions you made when estimating a project. Seems like a good plan.
Problem is, by assuming I already made an ass out ...
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How do you estimate? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to respond when you are asked for an estimate?
What are the estimation methods you use in real world projects and found it to be useful. I know there will be lot of ...
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Calculation of Milestones/Task list
My project manager assigned me a task to estimate the development time for an iPad application. Lets assume that I gave estimation of 15 working days. He thought that the number of days where too many ...
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In Scrum, what to do when story points and task hours don't roughly correlate?
Our development team is pretty new to the scrum process, so I would like to help refine our methods to make better use of it. In particular, I noticed that the correlation between story points and ...
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How do great enterprises estimate software development efforts?
I was learning about how to estimate software development effort, and would like to know how successful enterprises estimate their projects. How they do to know how much time a system will spend to ...
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Statistics on time estimates for web application
I have been asked to help estimate the time it would take to develop a web application. I will not be involved in the actual programming, but I am participating as an "experienced" programmer. The ...
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How to calculate the size of a project in the days-person unit of measurement?
Once in a while I have read here and there the size of a project expressed in a matter of days-person or person-day.
I may understand what this means, but I don't know on what do people base ...
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Delivering estimates and client expectations?
When a client asks for an estimate on how long it would take to develop different sections of an app, is it best to give them a total amount or what it would take for each section?
Is it better/more ...
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What is the relationship between the time it takes to develop N lines of code and 4N lines of code?
It took me time T to develop program A, which is measured at 1000 lines of code (SLOC), in certain a language and domain and of a certain complexity. Is there a method to determine how much time it ...
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Sales Manager: “Why is time-estimation so complex?”
A few days ago a sales manager asked me that question. But at this moment I didn't know a answer which he can understand. He isn't a programmer!
At the moment I work on a product which is over 8 ...
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What can I do to get better at estimating how long projects are going to take?
I don't want to make life hard for management. I really don't. They're nice enough guys, but every time I am assigned a new project or task and get asked "how long do you think it will take to do ...
