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#193: Estimation - How much to invest

15 min • 27 november 2024

This episode is part of a wider mini-series looking at Estimation in Software Development.

In this episode I want to take a deeper dive into the cost of achieving that - what is the correct cost for the perceived value of the estimate to you and your organisation.

This episode continue on from 190 where I asked "Don't invest in estimates unless there are clear demonstrable value in having them"

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Senaste avsnitt

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#16: Technical Debt

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#9: Introduction to the Cloud

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#8: Introduction to Agile

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#7 - Introduction to Lean Software Development

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#1 - Why is it difficult to get the best return on investment

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Episode 0 - Why I'm doing this podcast

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#193: Estimation - How much to invest

Senaste avsnitt

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#204: Estimation - Professionalism

#203: Estimation - Is Artificial Intelligence the answer?

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#201: Estimation - the #NoEstimate approach

#200: Estimation - Qualitative Approaches

#199: Estimation - Quantitative vs Qualitative

#198: Estimation vs the punitive target

#197: Estimation vs Dependencies

#196: Estimation vs Planning

#195: Estimation - An estimate by any other name

#194: Estimation - What are you actually asking for?