A Junior Developer Explains Task Estimation

Written by max-albert | Published 2020/04/22
Tech Story Tags: iteration-planning | backlog | product-management | estimation | jira | agile-development | coding | hackernoon-top-story | web-monetization

TLDR A deep-dive into iteration planning and predicting how long something will take is difficult. Developers are atrocious at estimating how long a task will take. Standish Group found that only 29% of projects were completed on time given contemporary agile development practices. Even straightforward tasks like this will eventually succumb to an unprecedented “blow up” and require much more development time than we planned on. This is what’s commonly referred to as “the blowup factor” The blow-up factor is inevitable.via the TL;DR App

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Written by max-albert | Founder of AppStop.io -- helping companies build great games and apps!
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/04/22