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Re:Software effort estimation is mostly fake research by nsoonhui on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:57AM (#36351505)
I can't tell you are serious or satire. If you are serious that kind of estimate is as good as useless because the projects most likely won't be profitable. Can you imagine what will a property developer think if he is informed that his project is going to take at least twice as long to complete?
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Re:Software effort estimation is mostly fake research by keyle on Friday June 16, 2023 @01:07AM (#36351593)
It was a satire. My go to formula is actually

    (A * B) / C + 2^D + (rand(4, -4) * E) / (0.5 * F)
[A] Time if I did it all by myself

[B] I have no idea what I'm doing ratio

[C] I totally have done this before

[D] Amount of weekly WTF per code review

[E] That stakeholder couldn't hold a stake

[F] Likely hood of it changing by next week

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Re:Software effort estimation is mostly fake research by TeMPOraL on Friday June 16, 2023 @04:36AM (#36353340)
> Can you imagine what will a property developer think if he is informed that his project is going to take at least twice as long to complete?

Property developers aren't doing R&D jobs. Most of software development is a multiplayer life sciences R&D, because even if you're not developing new technology, the combination of your chosen stack, target market, stakeholder personalities and management policies, makes your project a one-off job in an unexplored environment.

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