Best way to estimate development effort ?
Jun 13, 2020
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as title - how do you estimate the development effort when someone asked you about it ?
Current what i do is - estimate effort via days:
1. Look into code, depending on the change, estimate the time needed (including testing locally)
2. Account for time taken to let my team peer review my changes
3. time taken for changes to deploy
4. 10% extra time padding - in case of emergency fixes
what can i do better in this case ? also, in the case of where i dont have confidence for estimated development effort needed, how should i convey it to the business ?
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As you become more familiar with code your estimates will become more accurate.