Top "Estimation" questions

Questions related to tips and techniques about software project estimations: development time, effort, team size, software size, execution time, run time resource usage.

How to work unestimatable tasks into a scrum sprint?

I am the scrum master for a small team of 4 developers. The project we are working on has a lot …

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How to use linear interpolation estimate current position between two Geo Coordinates?

I have the following available: last reported lat,lon w/timestamp target lat,lon estimated time to target heading How …

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Scrum and Story Points - why ideal man-days not ideal man-hours?

I am used to thinking about time estimates in the way suggested by Joel Spolsky - that if a scheduled …

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Who should give high-level project estimates?

I've just come from a discussion about who is best placed to give estimates on a given piece of work. …

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