David R. MacIver's Blog
Posts tagged “estimation”
5 posts, oldest first.
- An estimation game for sprint planning
A technique for sprint planning that I haven't tried personally, for the obvious reason that I work alone. - How to think about task estimation
Task estimation is hard because you don't actually know what task estimation is. Let me fix that for you. - How to pick a number for any purpose
Estimation should often start with coming up with a range of plausible values for the true value. In this article I show how that works. - Estimation is inseparable from planning
Estimation is hard! Especially when you don't do enough of it. Some tales from my recent flat move and all the ways in which I got estimation wrong (mostly by not doing it). - How to think about estimation strategy
I like to think of estimations as moves in a game. The rules of the game are simple once you've picked the scoring system, but unfortunately the real world provides a lot of uncertainty in what the best move is. Your job is to learn how to play the game the best you can.