I find that with XP we are pretty acurate. We break the tasks up in to small units and quote them with timings. Then we have a 20% "glue-together" time on top of total time of all the units.
The 20% came with experience in our specific setup of 8 programmers. Robert On Friday 17 February 2006 10:34, Jeff Mutonho wrote: > Project managers will always ask for estimates on the time a developer > thinks he/she is gonna spend coding something.I know experience plays a > major role in this , but generally speaking ,what techniques do you guys > use?Any rules of thumb?Lies ,etc :) ? > > -- > Jeff Mutonho > Java/J2EE Developer > ph : + 27 21 408 6230 > mob : + 27 82 907 6420 > > GoogleTalk : ejbengine > Skype : ejbengine > Registered Linux user number 366042 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Forum -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
