Window on Technology

Urs Enzler - The problem with software development effort estimation

July 20, 2023 Tobias Fenster Season 1 Episode 15
Window on Technology
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.

Introduction
Overview of the topic
The main aspects that cause the problem
Diseconomy of scale
Complexity in software
Differences between project and product development for estimation
An idea for a solution
Outro: somewhere between optimzing algorithms and mountain-biking