Excellent book: Cohn’s Agile Estimating and Planning
Ive found when trying to estimate several projects that I’m just not too good at estimating. I’m about halfway through “Agile Estimating and Planning” by Mike Cohn, and find it quite useful. I used to consider project management somewhat ho-hum, but now I’m actually looking forward to trying some of these techniques out. I can tell they will address some of the areas I’ve been weak in.
I particularly like story points as a measure of size, and the idea of lowering the precision of the story point estimate as the number of points goes up.
The biggest issues with relating these principles to my life right now are being essentially a one man team (though occasionally with other team members), and how to charge for iterative development when consulting.
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