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My Washing Machine Refreshed My Thinking on Software Effort Estimation — Cosive (www.cosive.com)
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[-] NobodyElse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Instead of four hours, this could have taken half an hour by properly exploring the problem and mapping out a solution first. Everyone seems to shit on drawing up an architecture first and wants to immediately start coding, but taking a little time up front to think through the problem pays huge dividends in the long run.

[-] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Perhaps an interesting analogy, but offers nothing in terms of how to improve estimation. The only thing I can take away from this is to always add contingency to an estimate.

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