Spolsky goes on and on about evidence-based scheduling (EBS) on the StackOverflow podcast, and it’s to the point where I feel like he’s trying to tell me something, so I want to try it out. I’m looking for a resource that will not only tell me how to do EBS, but also give me some anecdotal info on how it works with different kinds of teams, particularly those working in a corporate/enterprise environment.
Spolsky goes on and on about evidence-based scheduling (EBS) on the StackOverflow podcast, and
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Well, there’s his own post for starters. And there’s a whitepaper on EBS linking from the FogBugz site.
Largely, it seems that most of the content available is in some roundabout way attributable back to Joel.
The approach itself is apparently a derivation of the Monte Carlo method for estimating, which you might also want to look at.