codeinabox to ProgrammingEnglish · 1 month agoHow I estimate work as a staff software engineerwww.seangoedecke.comexternal-linkmessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareColonel Paniclinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 month agoin a company I worked for, the rule was “estimate any task as if the junior on your team would work on it. then double it.” including all the overhead from testing, bugfixing, deployments and releases, this turned out to be quite realistic
in a company I worked for, the rule was “estimate any task as if the junior on your team would work on it. then double it.”
including all the overhead from testing, bugfixing, deployments and releases, this turned out to be quite realistic