What's an "inch pebble"?
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by Dave Garrett
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Situation: You need more near-term visibility.
It's always easier to estimate how long things will take when you're right about to do them. That's when you suddenly uncover all of those little steps between here and there that ou forgot about completely when building your 6 month project plan.
Inch Pebbles are used to estimate all of those little granular activities that together make up what you'll really have to do to get the job done. In
Estimating with Inch Pebbles Johanna Rothman discusses how you can use this extreme programming technique weekly or monthly to get a better handle on where things stand. The article is a quick read - well worth your time.
Posted on: September 06, 2007 11:46 AM |
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