How To Estimate Software Development Time

"How to estimate software development time” is a perennial question that faces us all at some point in our career. How to manage software projects is a complex problem, there is a lot to understand, and there is a lot of misunderstanding about what is sensible and possible in software estimation. So in this episode, Dave Farley explores the ideas of estimating software, or not: the #NoEstimates movement say don’t estimate at all, and many successful teams work that way. Software project management would naturally like to know how long something will take, and it is a reasonable question, but one that is very difficult to answer with any degree of accuracy. So whether you are a developer being asked to estimate next week's work, a team leader looking to figure out when the next release will be, or someone trying to sell a project to someone else, what do we know about what works in estimation, and what doesn’t? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🎓 CD TRAINING COURSES 🎓 If you want to learn Continuous Delivery and DevOps skills, check out Dave Farley's courses ➡️ https://bit.ly/DFTraining 📚 BOOKS: 📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is now available on amazon ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 In this book, Dave brings together his ideas and proven techniques to describe a durable, coherent and foundational approach to effective software development, for programmers, managers and technical leads, at all levels of experience. 📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines 📖 The original "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx 📖 "Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules", by Steve McConnell ➡️ https://amzn.to/38OKgtP 📧 JOIN CD MAIL LIST 📧 Keep up to date with the latest discussions, free "How To..." guides, events and online courses. ➡️ https://bit.ly/MailListCD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANNEL SPONSORS: Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://www.equalexperts.com/ Harness helps engineers and developers simplify and scale CI/CD, Feature Flags and Cloud Cost Management with an AI-powered platform for software delivery. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Cfx3qI