Questions tagged [estimation]
Estimation is the process of finding an estimate, or approximation, which is a value that is usable for some purpose even if input data may be incomplete, uncertain, or unstable.
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Design Question - Storing timeseries in a key-value store
I'm looking for a sanity check my thinking around the memory layout of a key-value store.
We have a system that periodically polls and monitors on host-level jobs. On every poll, a given job emit can ...
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Approach to figure out hardware requirements for a software based it's scale
We have softwares that specify minimum hardware requirements.
So, how to figure out what specs we need in case we want to scale up our systems.
Like I'm working on server performance monitoring setup ...
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How can you predict with any accuracy the number of hours needed to develop an app [closed]
I'm a university student, but I don't come from an engineering or programming background. I'm doing an academic assignment where I need to estimate how long it would take to develop a website for a ...
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Story points and many small tasks
My director and I are having a recurring conversation about story points and planning and I wanted to get additional feedback from this community.
We use fibonacci story points. When we plan a feature ...
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Are story points really a good measure for velocity?
Story points are used quite a lot nowadays, especially in Scrum to measure how much work the team can complete during a sprint. There are tons of articles out there explaining why estimating in story ...
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How to make Scrum less stressful
I have worked with Scrum in various IT companies on software development projects. This framework has become the standard in several companies, but I have not yet managed to make friends with it ...
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How do I determine how long a refactoring effort will take?
After much hard work, I've convinced my manager that some absolutely awful code needs refactoring. As with any project, they've asked me for a time estimate and I've found myself stumped. How can I ...
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Estimates without estimates
I have recently started working with a new large company, which has lots of different teams, working on different products, which are largely self-managed and are run quite differently.
My team is ...
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Scrum Team - Being asked to estimate project end date with an incomplete backlog
Looking for ideas in how to go about providing an estimate for project completion, when a fairly large percentage of backlog is not defined enough to confidently assign story points. This is a ...
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Using Gregorian Year vs using Mean Tropical Year
I was working on a small CLI tool to convert between time units and seconds.
Someone filed an issue about how the code was treating a year as 365.25 days while the Gregorian year is supposed to be 365....
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How to estimate scaling up costs/resources-needed of a project? [closed]
Let's consider an entrepreneur decides to create a new company like Airbnb, Netflix, etc. The problem is about the software part. He doesn't know how long it takes to create the mobile/web app? How ...
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How to split and estimate work in multi layer application [closed]
So, I'm trying to understand how this is done in real life... If I have a website with an API and a UI, and a User Story comes in like... as a user I want to be able to login that requires changes ...
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How to accurately measure estimate without design as a Front End developer in agile?
I am a front end developer with 2 years experience, I am new to agile and I am having difficulty doing estimates to for user stories since I don't have any design for it? I am not sure how can I give ...
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How can you decide how much detail is it worth going in to when planning a new feature?
I'm a recovering perfectionist.
According to my colleagues, I am also a good software engineer, but one of the feedback I have often received is that I tend to dive too deep too soon.
Suppose I start ...
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How to handle similar/re-usable work when estimating story points?
In our Jira board we might have 5 tickets for different API endpoints - for example:
ListArticle
GetArticle
CreateArticle
DeleteArticle
When we create these new endpoints, there is some initial work ...
