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Re:Software Estimation Games by pixelcort on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @08:48AM (#9183757)
When asked for an estimate, one good prerequisite is: "with what confidence level?"

Assuming estimating 100 tasks, how many can we safely go beyond the estimate? 20%? 1%? 0.001%

Then give the estimate based on some probability curve considering the known unknowns.

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Re:Software Estimation Games by tonyedgecombe on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @09:09AM (#9183845)
I don't think many of my customers know what a confidence interval is.
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Re:Software Estimation Games by toyg on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @09:35AM (#9183952)
That sounds a lot like a False Precision game.
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