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Level Up Coding

I struggled a lot with estimations in my two years as a developer. And I’m not the only one, most of my coworkers struggle with this too. I think it’s because nobody teaches you how to estimate when…

Estimate Smarter, not Harder

Better Programming

One of the most difficult (and paradoxically time-consuming aspects) of a software developer’s job is estimation. When developers make estimates about their work it can affect the success of the…

Chapter 8 Estimation

Think Stats

The code for this chapter is in estimation.py . For information about downloading and working with this code, see Section 0.2 . 8.1 The estimation game Let’s play a game. I think of a distribution, an...

Performing Statistical Estimation

Towards Data Science

Statistics, as we know, is the study of gathering data, summarizing & visualizing the data, identifying patterns, differences, limitations and inconsistencies and extrapolating information regarding…

What’s Wrong With Your Estimates

Better Programming

If you often fail your estimates — this is how to estimate the tasks quickly and accurately. Photo by Headway on Unsplash Every more or less significant project has its stakeholders. And the stakehol...

Estimates Are Estimates!

Better Programming

A lesson learned as a Scrum coach Continue reading on Better Programming

How to Make Better Estimates?

Level Up Coding

Estimation provides business value. Accuracy in estimation can lead to better budgeting. You can estimate the cost of work, schedule releases with ease, and correct project planning. Software…

How to Get Better with Estimations

Towards Data Science

Estimations are hard. Every developer struggles with that task. The reason for that is simple: developers are asked to estimate something that they never did before. Unless it is an agency that makes…...

Estimation, Prediction and Forecasting

Towards Data Science

Estimation implies finding the optimal parameter using historical data whereas prediction uses the data to compute the random value of the unseen data. Estimation is the process of optimizing the…

You probably don’t need to estimate. Just count the tickets.

Level Up Coding

Look, estimates are useful, ok? They are useful for making product decisions, they are useful for managing expectations, they are useful for planning resource. But developers hate estimating. At least...

Estimators

TensorFlow Guide

Advantages Similar to a tf.keras.Model , an estimator is a model-level abstraction. The tf.estimator provides some capabilities currently still under development for tf.keras . These are: Parameter se...

Agile Estimation: part II

Towards Data Science

In my previous notebook I proposed to use Poisson distribution for estimating the number of story points per iteration, i.e. project velocity. It is a fairly simple distribution, which has one…