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On the dark art of software estimation

2 pointsby davidstabout 9 years ago

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frostymarvelousabout 9 years ago
I just joined a company which is starting out on having a small in house software development team to boost their business and this has been a real pain point for me.<p>It&#x27;s really frustrating when you&#x27;re expected to break a task down into each step you&#x27;ll take and estimate it. No matter what I say, we just can&#x27;t seem to agree that, I don&#x27;t know what exactly I&#x27;m going to do.<p>I have rough idea how to tackle this, but I just can&#x27;t tell exactly how each idea will pan out. And I also don&#x27;t know when I&#x27;ll have to go back and rewrite or refactor something I wrote already.