Timeline for How can you estimate time for tasks which primarily consist of figuring out a problem?
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| Aug 7, 2020 at 5:13 | comment | added | Vorac | +1 the dogs and rabbits are from the famous boat problem but is the nun a reference to the medieval witch detection practice? ("you throw the lady in a lake with tied hands and legs, if she floats she is clearly a witch and needs to burn") But the +1 is for the "don't unless you have similar experience". I would even take a step further: "gimme 1 day on which I'll do zero development and you'll get your estimate plus sigma". | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 14:06 | comment | added | Michael Shaw | Saying 'its a complex problem, we are working on a few ideas to solve it. As a team, we will review these ideas next week, and as part of that review will be timescales for the different solutions. Would you like to be at that technical meeting? | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 10:59 | comment | added | Rob Baillie | How about "The design is 90% of the work and I won't know how long it'll take until the design's done. Can give you an approximate range now, start the design and keep you up to date on changes to the estimate as I learn more about the solution?" | |
| Mar 22, 2014 at 9:57 | comment | added | Móż | In this case though, the design seems to be 90% of the work. And saying "I'll give you an estimate after I've done 90% of the work" rarely makes anyone happy. | |
| Mar 21, 2014 at 23:17 | history | answered | tylerl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |