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You don't need story-points either20 comments

Amit Rathore wrote 2 weeks ago: Or an estimation-less approach to software development I’ve had too many conversations (and ov … more »

Tags: Agile, Process, project management, story points

The Complexity Implementation Tangle

leftshift wrote 2 months ago: Using relative complexity in your estimation is quite an effective estimating technique. To do this … more »

Tags: Metrics, Chart, Complexity

Weather and Driving: A New Application

ideambulate wrote 3 months ago: The weather affects how long it takes to travel from one place to the next, but I’m not aware … more »

Tags: Business, Computing, Quantification, Autos, Cars, Driving, Geography, Mapping, Maps

The Dantzig selector: Statistical estimation when p is much larger than n10 comments

Terence Tao wrote 3 months ago: Over two years ago, Emmanuel Candés and I submitted the paper “The Dantzig selector: Statisti … more »

Tags: math.ST, Update, compressed sensing, Linear Programming, Dantzig selector, lasso selector, restricted isometry property, mean square error

Why I don't use real hours for sprint planning9 comments

Amit Rathore wrote 4 months ago: OK, so several of my friends and colleagues pointed me to Mike Cohn’s recent blog post about w … more »

Tags: Agile, lean software, Process, project management, story points

Best of Feeds - 34 links - programming, google, lifehacks, ruby, funny1 comment

engtech wrote 9 months ago: RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of th … more »

Tags: Best of Feeds, Blogging, javascript, lifehacks, Productivity, Programming, rails, Tips, SEO

Estimation - a necessary evil

Amit Rathore wrote 11 months ago: Recent conversations with some co-workers have prompted me to realize that both sides are equally ri … more »

Tags: Agile, Process, project management

Measuring actuals considered harmful

Amit Rathore wrote 12 months ago: I don’t quite know what it is, but some project managers really like to measure ‘actuals … more »

Tags: Agile, lean software, organizational, Process, project management

If estimation is harmful... then, what's not?8 comments

Amit Rathore wrote 1 year ago: Or leaner Agile - part II (Part I is here) During conversations with a couple of co-workers about es … more »

Tags: Agile, lean software, Process, project management, story points

Story points - handling unknowns

Amit Rathore wrote 1 year ago: I’m a big fan of using - story - points to estimate effort on software development projects. I … more »

Tags: Process, project management, story points

Back of the envelope1 comment

Phil Wilson wrote 1 year ago: Confronted with a novel problem at work or at home, the first thing that anyone from several generat … more »

Tags: mathematics, back of the envelope, Tea, democracy, Risk, Cow, phsyics, order of magnitude, Engineering

Math Should Be Taught Differently In Schools

Jake wrote 3 weeks ago: The majority of people who learn mathematics in school (K-12) will only use a very small subset of w … more »

Tags: Education, Math, School

Estimation in the dark

moffdub wrote 1 month ago: I avoided it as long as possible, but the time came when the business guys on The Project wanted me … more »

Tags: The Project, Agile, Function Points, linda laird, object points, Schedule, Software Engineering, use case points

Centroid estimation in discrete high-dimensional spaces

Luk Arbuckle wrote 1 month ago: A point estimate of a parameter is a single number intended to be as close as possible to the true v … more »

Tags: Article, Biology, centroid, inference, likelihood, maximum likelihood

Estimation, Planning and Goals: All Different I Say!

tcagley wrote 1 month ago: Estimation, Planning and Goals: All Different I Say! Thomas M. Cagley Jr. Audio - at www.spamcast.n … more »

Tags: Agile, Information Technology, Process Improvement, Software Engineering, SPI, Phil Armour

Econometrics lit review in video

Luk Arbuckle wrote 1 month ago: The National Bureau of Economic Research—a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization … more »

Tags: Mixed, Economics, Econometrics, Video, Lecture, inference, panel data, "Treatment Effects", bayesian

Confidence, prediction, and tolerance intervals explained

Luk Arbuckle wrote 1 month ago: JMP, a business division of SAS, has a short seven page white paper that describes the differences b … more »

Tags: SAS, jmp, confidence, prediction, Tolerance, White Paper

Give One, Take a Lot More: Using Benchmark Fractions or Estimating Them22 comments

vkier wrote 3 months ago: Create one example of using benchmarks or estimation and fractions (see Example 8-9 on page 186 in t … more »

Tags: Original Problems, Give, Take, estimating fractions, flags, Fractions, Benchmark, give and take

Change Management

tskraghu wrote 3 months ago: The other evening, I was returning home with my colleague who is in the marketing function preparing … more »

Tags: Change Management, change


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