How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time?

itwbennett writes "It can take a fairly stable team of programmers as long as six months to get to a point where they're estimating programming time fairly close to actuals, says Suvro Upadhyaya, a Senior Software Engineer at Oracle. Accurately estimating programming time is a process of defining limitations, he says. The programmers' experience, domain knowledge, and speed vs. quality all come into play, and it is highly dependent upon the culture of the team/organization. Upadhyaya uses Scrum to estimate programming time. How do you do it?"pa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1654200/How-Do-You-Accurately-Estimate-Programming-Time?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/02/09/1654200"/a/ppa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1654200/How-Do-You-Accurately-Estimate-Programming-Time?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/U7ylRSZeyhiNHxTHS53gbpvPNOg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/U7ylRSZeyhiNHxTHS53gbpvPNOg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/U7ylRSZeyhiNHxTHS53gbpvPNOg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/U7ylRSZeyhiNHxTHS53gbpvPNOg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/fKVsl7f2BnQ" height="1" width="1"/

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