How to do task estimates
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The current approach we agreed on is to apply the following practices:
- We use
hours
as units of measurement.
- Take your approximate estimate of how long the task would take based on your experience, and multiply it by
3.0
. This multiplication factor is used to provide us with safety time buffer to deal with unpredicted obstacles.
- Each team member gives their estimate (multiplied by the safety buffer factor), and then the
average
of all the individual estimates is taken as the final estimate.
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