Software Developers and the Estimations
Recently I was having a conversion with one of my software developer friends and he was complaining about missing schedules on the delivery of his project. Maybe the estimate of projection completion time was not proper. A lot of things were discovered during project execution and things went awry. The result was an expenditure of currency you are already scarce in: time. I figured out from our conversation that the ways estimate was done was by a simple democratic process. Managers asked each developer how much time they 'll take to complete their project and they summed up whatever estimate developers gave for their individual efforts. I am sure there would have been some safety factor applied to the resulting some. Since a lot has been said about the estimation of software subject and people spend probably years or months in figuring out what is the proper way of estimation of project, so I'll not spend a lot of time in discussing what is the best way to. Starting from wat...