Re:Why don’t software development methodologies work?
by scotty79 on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @05:22PM
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Do you expect to get estimates of outcome from stock market traders? They do their thing and you gain and loose according to external factors.
But seriously scrum with concept of velocity and estimating size of tasks is the best approach I've seen. That's if ou want to ask programmere at all. Preferable way would be to predict the duration of the project scientfically from metrics gathered in the past (of not only the programmers and projects but also the environment they operate in).
How can a programmer estimate when project will get built if he doesn't even know if anyone actually cares enough about it being built to actually decide what the software should do?
But seriously scrum with concept of velocity and estimating size of tasks is the best approach I've seen. That's if ou want to ask programmere at all. Preferable way would be to predict the duration of the project scientfically from metrics gathered in the past (of not only the programmers and projects but also the environment they operate in).
How can a programmer estimate when project will get built if he doesn't even know if anyone actually cares enough about it being built to actually decide what the software should do?