Scott, How do you do it? Honestly I want to know.
The best I've ever been able to come up with is that if someone always writes the same kind of code, say repeatedly writing eCommerce sites for different clients, then they can base an estimate for a new project on experience with past project. But that's not the way I've ever worked. I always write completely new things, that bear no relation at all to past projects, so I don't have any meaningful basis for estimates. My colleagues tell me I should know how to estimate. I can see how it would be helpful but I've never been able to figure out how to actually do it. Mike On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Scott Ribe <scott_r...@elevated-dev.com> wrote: > On Jun 22, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Michael Crawford wrote: > >> If you claim you know how to estimate software development >> time and cost, I don't believe you. > > I do, and I do *very* well at it. But I certainly cannot estimate > reverse-engineering an undocumented format; it would be madness for anyone to > claim otherwise ;-) > > > -- > Scott Ribe > scott_r...@elevated-dev.com > http://www.elevated-dev.com/ > (303) 722-0567 voice > > > > -- Michael David Crawford mdcrawford at gmail dot com Custom Software Development for the iPhone and Mac OS X http://www.dulcineatech.com/custom-software-development/ _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
