Susmit Tyagi·4d agoFrom AI-Assisted Estimation to Estimating Agentic Workflows: A Mindset ShiftWhen AI performs part of the work, estimates must reflect how agents and people deliver it together.A response icon1A response icon1
InILLUMINATIONbyNoor Mohammad·Oct 22How Long Does It Take to Build an E-commerce Site? My First Commit Was Already 266,791 Lines.I read my store’s whole git history and this Mac’s Claude Code logs. The honest answer starts with what was already in the repo.A response icon1A response icon1
InAndersen IT CommunitybyDrew Elen Maxwell·Oct 20The Median-Pessimistic Scenario: Choosing Reality Before Estimating ItHow I discovered that removing delivery noise from engineering estimates was not enough — and why scenario selection turned out to be the…
Archana Shukla·Oct 7Estimation Is Not Just “How Long Will the Code Take?”Why most of us get estimates wrong, whether we’re interns, engineers, architects, managers or PMs, and what to do about it.A response icon2A response icon2
Adnan Masood, PhD.·Oct 1Software Estimation When AI Does the Work — The Economics of Code Part 2AI software estimation needs more than a productivity multiplier. Learn how AIDLC and coding agents change effort, cost, and delivery.A response icon1A response icon1
Adnan Masood, PhD.·Sep 30How to Estimate Software — The Economics of Code Part 1A Practical Guide to the Methods, Models, and Mistakes — From expert judgment and function points to COCOMO, Agile estimation, and…A response icon1A response icon1
Kaizen Chandra·Sep 16Back-of-the-Envelope Estimation (System Design)Before choosing Redis, Kafka, sharding, Kubernetes, or a multi-region architecture, answer a simpler question:
Bry·Aug 19Estimating a Project When AI Can Prototype the Whole Thing in a DayA working prototype used to be the estimate’s proof of concept, delivered weeks in. Now it’s often the first deliverable, delivered before…
Svyatoslav Hromyak·Jun 22Ghosts and Animals: The Hidden Power Behind Your AI SuccessThis article is written for business leaders. Today, “agentic programming” is a buzzword, yet most people are not aware of how effective it…
Kreingkrai Luangchaipreeda·Jun 17The Truth About Project Estimation: Why Projects Still Get Delayed Even When You Add Buffer TimeThe uncomfortable reasons most estimates fail — and why the problem usually isn’t optimism
