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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 04:50:38 JST Eaton

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   • Marco Rogers

   @polotek absolutely had to develop my own guidelines; breaking the “feels like I could write X in a week or so” gut checks and relying on project decomposition and historical project numbers, etc. was tough.

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 04:50:40 JST Marco Rogers

     Questions for software engineers about estimates. Feel free to answer any of these in any order.

     Have you ever had an explicit conversation about how to estimate projects? How did you learn?

     If you feel that you were never taught the skill in any real sense, what do you feel you're doing at work when you're asked for estimates? Are you making it up? Have you developed your own personal guidelines?

     On average, how confident are you in your own estimates? How do you measure success?