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How many of you actually participate in the estimation process? Are all of your estimations based on gut-feeling? Do you use any templates for estimation purposes?
Please guide me in preparing an estimation for a project that is to be migrated to VB .NET from VB 6.0
What kind of inputs do you need? I need an efforts based estimate.
That is an extremely difficult task.
I've used "number of maintenance screens"+"number of reports"+"number of major-business rules/calc" and lost my shirt.
Even gut-feeling doesn't work out (at least for the past 25 years or so).
See this post:
Agile methodologies
and look at the link for "Incrementalist and Completionists".
I believe there is about to be a fundamental shift in how us poor programmers cost out jobs, so that we don't keep taking the risk when the business managers are looking to take no risk at all.
This is what I am planning to do now.
I plan to upgrade one of the forms in my former application and measure the time taken for it. I will make sure that the form is fully workable. Once I have got this, then I plan to extrapolate to the other forms.
I was looking at FP estimation and it seems to be a really complex process for me.
I hope this works, if it doesn't HELP ME GOD.