How I estimate work(seangoedecke.com)
450 points by mattjhall | 268 comments
Sean Goedecke's blog post on how he approaches estimating software work as a staff engineer, arguing accurate estimation is impossible.
#software-estimation on Hacker News
3 stories tagged software-estimation, newest first.
My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation(cosive.com)
428 points by tashicorp | 382 comments
Blog post by Cosive CTO Chris Horsley using an analogy from his washing machine's time estimates to reflect on software effort estimation.
"No, it's less effort than that"(smartguess.is)
362 points by replyifuagree | 287 comments
A Smart Guess blog post about software effort estimates and people claiming a task takes less effort than estimated.