I just read an article about estimating how long it will take you to do something. This might seem boring as dirt because it is. Except that this is the most exciting-sounding thing I’ve seen about something this boring in a long, long time. Here’s an example of why this article sounds so exciting: “Only the programmer doing the work can create the estimate“. That’s truth, right there.

 Joel Spolsky’s article on Evidence Based Scheduling

I’m going to try it. We’ll see how it goes…