Mark Stosberg wrote:
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 07:45, Mark Stosberg wrote:So, what resources are recommended to consult to make great estimates? What habits to develop?
Thanks to everyone for all the responses. There is one theme I haven't heard anyone mention:
The purely scientific approach that I assume involves collecting a lot o data and using complex formulas.
You probably know about "original wiki", www.c2.com
http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors
Part of XP methodology is to compare your estimates with real progress and find out the "speed" of implementing. IIRC I read about it at:
http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ChangeYourOrganizationDiary
but cannot find it now. I found only
http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ProjectCostEstimates
I am not a XP zealot, not even a follower. I maybe would like to try XP, but I am little scared - and we do not do XP here anyway... :(
Couple of other interesting links I found out at c2 wiki: (unfortunately I did not have time to read them all)
http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?CategoryCaseStudy http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProcess http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?CategoryProject
wikipedia has also a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_planning
Sorry, but the only personal experience I have is in company I worked before: They set up a metric to estimate cost (couple months after I left), and within a year most of company were outsourced to India, including obligatory training of own replacement. So I was the last one who left, and was not fired. :-(
Sorry if this post is too OT.
HTH
-- Peter Masiar
