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HeyLaughingBoy
on Aug 2, 2012
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Why Programmers Are Bad at Estimating Time
How large were your tasks? The rule of thumb I use is that no individual task should be more than 4 hours. If it comes out longer than that, I break it up into subtasks. It is much easier to estimate small things than big things.
iamwil
on Aug 2, 2012
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The tasks were at most 8 hour estimates. Perhaps I should try 4 hours next time.
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