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Urs Enzler - The problem with software development effort estimation

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Urs Enzler, software architect, shares his insights about the challenges with software development effort estimation. We talk about general aspects, we dive a bit into diseconomy of scale and complexity, we detour into monoliths vs. microservices and what the differences between estimation of projects and products are. In the end, Urs shares his idea for how we can at least try to approach the problem.

Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Overview of the topic (00:03:12)

3. The main aspects that cause the problem (00:05:09)

4. Diseconomy of scale (00:08:57)

5. Complexity in software (00:14:49)

6. Differences between project and product development for estimation (00:22:57)

7. An idea for a solution (00:32:24)

8. Outro: somewhere between optimzing algorithms and mountain-biking (00:41:10)

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