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Tom Johnson

Software development time estimates

"Software development time estimates. Derek M. Jones analyzes software-engineering data. Recently, he convinced a small software company to release a dataset documenting its internal time estimates, spanning 10 years, 20 projects, and 10,000+ tasks. For each task, the dataset indicates the number of hours it was predicted to take, how long it actually took, the (anonymized) developers it was assigned to, and more. [h/t Erik Bern and Jeremy Singer-Vine] "

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Barry MacKichan

Re: Software development time estimates

Attached is a sketch from my memory of the estimates of the completion of Microsoft Word for Windows made on various dates. The dashed line is where the estimated date of completion equals the year the estimate was made. There are about three or four squares to a year.

I suggested it be engraved in brass and displayed over the entrances to the buildings at Microsoft. The caption of “Abandon hope all who enter here” was optional.

As usual, nobody took my advice.

--Barry

On 24 Apr 2019, at 14:00, Tom Johnson wrote:

"Software development time estimates. Derek M. Jones analyzes software-engineering data. Recently, he convinced a small software company to release a dataset documenting its internal time estimates, spanning 10 years, 20 projects, and 10,000+ tasks. For each task, the dataset indicates the number of hours it was predicted to take, how long it actually took, the (anonymized) developers it was assigned to, and more. [h/t Erik Bern and Jeremy Singer-Vine] "
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Tom Johnson - [hidden email]
Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)
NM Foundation for Open Government
Check out It's The People's Data
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