Category: Team Work
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What Are We Estimating, Exactly?
I’ve been writing software for fourteen years. For most of that time, the question “how long will this take?” had a reasonable answer. It might be wrong, but at least it pointed at something real: the time it took me to think it through, type it out, find the bugs, ship it. The estimate was…
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The art of assumption making
Don’t ask yourself what is the art of assumption making yet, just ask if you have ever seen the assumption-making as an art? Can you see it now if you take your time to think about it deeply? First time when I asked myself this question, I was like, “Well, at least the person who assumes…