Aug 19, 2009 Posted by John MacIntyre

Investigating the relationship between estimation accuracy and task size

Yesterday on StackOverflow Johannes Hansen asked What is the acceptable upper limit of time allocated to a single development task? I answered with If you track your estimate/actual history, you can probably plot hours by accuracy and figure out exactly what number is appropriate for your team. My advice sounded so good I thought I’d try it myself. So I opened bug tracker where I keep track of my probable... read more