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Estimation Toolkit. No matter what kind of software you write, no matter what size company you work for, you probably have to provide estimates to someone.

Estimation Toolkit

They may want to know how long the effort will take or how much it will cost. But no matter how you slice it, estimation is critical skill and essential to the success of any software development effort of any size or consequence. There are many techniques agile teams can use to help guide their estimation efforts. The toolkit described in this article consists of a number of approaches to estimating both projects and "business as usual" work. The techniques are heavily biased toward agile projects and are designed to be used by people who should already have a basic understanding of agile estimation techniques (i.e those who have completed an agile project management course and/or been involved agile projects long enough to understand how they work).

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