Article Books Estimate Software Engineering 
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Perhaps you’ve read many blog posts about how horrible SAFe is, or how useless estimation is, or what the optimal size of a team is. What if you recommend teams to stop estimation altogether and cause financial damage compared to when you wouldn’t have recommended this? You may have the practical experience to support your beliefs.
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 5, 2018
There is a discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. In our domain of engineered systems, there is a broad range of problems, complex issues, approaches to solving problems. In all cases, we start our work with.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Herding Cats
DECEMBER 16, 2017
The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Let's start with some books. Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006.
Herding Cats
MARCH 23, 2017
In the estimating business, like many things in project management, there is confusion about principles, practices, and processes. A good estimation approach should provide estimates that are within 25% of the actual results, 75% of the time. The book this statement comes from is Conte, S. Dunsmore and V.Y.
Herding Cats
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
Since all risk comes from uncertainty - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), estimating is a foundation of all we do. There is no discussion of the conjecture that estimates are a waste, estimates can't be done, estimates are evil, estimates must be stopped immediately. illities are a waste.
Herding Cats
AUGUST 27, 2017
There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.
Herding Cats
MAY 8, 2016
ways to make decisions with No Estimates. can we make a decision in the presence of Uncertainty without making an estimate of the impact or outcome of that decision? What would be the evidence that we could make decisions in the presence of uncertanty without estimating the impacts and outcomes of those decisions? . Start here.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
180 
Let's personalize your content