Why you Should Estimate User Stories and Why 5 Reasons Against it are Bogus

Published at: 08:04 pm - Monday April 11 2011

I just came a cross 5 Reasons Why You Should Stop Estimating User Stories by Michael Dubakov. While I consider it an important practice to challenge everything I think this time the challenge is pretty weak and falls apart as soon as you start to analyse it. So lets do just that: You don’t waste [...]

Posted in: Softwaredevelopment by Jens Schauder No Comments

8 Reasons why the Estimates are too low

Published at: 02:01 pm - Sunday January 17 2010

One of the most difficult tasks in a software development project is estimating the size of the project. Unfortunatly very often  you have to do it at the very beginning of a project, when you have the least information. The result at the end is very often a large difference between the original estimate and [...]

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