{"id":1010,"date":"2007-11-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/11\/11\/948\/"},"modified":"2007-11-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T23:00:00","slug":"948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/11\/11\/948\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence Based Scheduling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2007\/10\/26.html\" title=\"Evidence Based Scheduling - Joel on Software\">Joel Spolsky &#8211; Evidence Based Scheduling<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Individual development tasks are easy to estimate, because you\u2019ve written subroutines, created dialogs, and parsed files before.<\/p>\n<p>If you are sloppy, and pick big three-week tasks (e.g., \u201cImplement Ajax photo editor\u201d), then you <em>haven\u2019t thought about what you are going to do<\/em>. In detail. Step by step. And when you haven\u2019t thought about what you\u2019re going to do, you can\u2019t know how long it will take.<\/p>\n<p>Setting a 16-hour maximum forces you to <em>design<\/em> the damn feature.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Spolsky &#8211; Evidence Based Scheduling: &#8222;Individual development tasks are easy to estimate, because you\u2019ve written subroutines, created dialogs, and parsed files before. If you are sloppy, and pick big three-week tasks (e.g., \u201cImplement Ajax photo editor\u201d), then you haven\u2019t thought about what you are going to do. In detail. Step by step. And when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}