Excellent blog post about estimating task time! Also feeling weirdly self-satisfied at the mathematical justification of my personal rules, (team member/dev estimate times 2 for my own planning, and times 5-10 with external stakeholders depending on the stakes/certainty needed.)
Reposted from Benjamin P Taylor
"That means the developer’s estimate, while far from perfect, is also far from meaningless: it’s the scale parameter of some distribution."
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