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by diiq 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote (happy to travel for kickoff, though) | Michigan, USA I'm Sam Bleckley, a full stack engineer with 2 decades of successful outcomes consulting across dozens of industries. I can help with: - Technical challenges (
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The Inefficient Courtroom(sambleckley.com)
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by diiq 2y ago
Tip: if you open your comment with SEEKING FREELANCER (as the instructions suggest), you may get more leads
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by diiq 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Michigan, USA I'm Sam Bleckley, a full stack engineer with over 2 decades of experience consulting across dozens of industries. I can help with: - Technical challenges ("We know the feature we want, but we
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One Song in Your Musical Is Wrong(sambleckley.com)
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I Rewrote a Century-Old Artist's Anatomy Book(sambleckley.com)
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by diiq 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | United States / Michigan | Remote | Full Stack Software Engineer and Designer I'm a software engineer and designer with 2 decades of experience across a wide range of industries, from B2B factory-floor logistics to
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by diiq 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | United States / Michigan | Remote | Full Stack Software Engineer and Designer I'm a software engineer and designer with 2 decades of experience across a wide range of industries, from B2B factory-floor logistics to
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The Anatomist's Fallacy(sambleckley.com)
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AI in 2024: What Good is Bullshit?(sambleckley.com)
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by diiq 3y ago
I absolutely agree that an arbitrary line can be drawn; I don't see that that line can be clear and bright enough that forms the kind of precedence that can be relied upon by folks who don't have the money to fight an uncertain
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by diiq 3y ago
Author here! As noted in another reply, I'm using a custom justification tool I built almost a decade ago called unjustifiable. The way it goes about it very silly; you can read more about it at https://sambleckley.com/
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Garden Path Content(sambleckley.com)
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by diiq 4y ago
That is also valuable, but a different premise! Barbara Sher originally wrote books based on that premise: find Your Thing and you'll shine -- but discovered that some people didn't seem to have A Thing, and any talk of having A
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by diiq 4y ago
You don't need focus; you need to understand what your goal is . If you're dropping projects that look "unfinished" because, in reality, you've gotten what you want from them, that is fine. It only looks sloppy fro
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by diiq 5y ago
This appears to be based on a strange assumption that developers' estimates can't take historical work into account, but dev managers' can; and that estimates coming from dev managers and based on historical work will not be
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by diiq 5y ago
Absolutely, extensive notes are a huge part of my practice both on teams and solo [1] -- I'm trying to say "solve the problems you actually have" not "when solo, cowboy-code everything like a madman". [1] https:&
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by diiq 5y ago
Pretty much anyone you can pay to host a database, you can pay to back it up. Amazon rds, heroku postgres, google cloud sql... pick the service that works for you, and they have some affordance for backups. Backups are something I expect ,
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by diiq 5y ago
Lots and lots of best practice exists specifically to help teams , and especially teams with some normal amount of turnover. The problems of a solo dev are very different than a dev on a team. Knowledge silos don't exist. Distributed
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by diiq 5y ago
If you don't want to script your own, Vistimo Quotes lets you do monte-carlo simulation with vague, uncertain estimates; and lets you play with variables like the number of people working, vacation time, etc. https://quotes.
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by diiq 5y ago
I use a statistical model, where each task gets a "best case" and "worst case" estimate; those estimates are used to create a log normal distribution, and the project is simulated as the sum of those distributions plus s
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by diiq 5y ago
I suppose if you consider software to be somehow magically different than all the other human activities which go over-time or over-budget, maybe you could claim that research doesn't apply. But I guess I'd still expect you to kno
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by diiq 5y ago
Forty volumes of the "Journal of Forecasting" would be a place to start for peer-reviewed articles, I guess https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1099131x/current
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by diiq 5y ago
Would upvote twice if I could -- These are 5-star rules of thumb. (I'm glad to see lognormal making more inroads in software estimation. McConnell is great, but assuming the normal distribution leads to some weird edge cases.)
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by diiq 5y ago
1) The big if is written out in the abstract -- "if it is accepted that algorithmic complexity is an appropriate definition of the complexity of a programming project." Relating algorithmic complexity to "how long software ta
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by diiq 5y ago
McConnell's 50/90 approach makes a big difference in my opinion because it lets you encode your uncertainty. The extra math means you don't need to be good at estimation as long as you know roughly how bad you are at it
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by diiq 5y ago
That makes sense! I am constantly interacting with new teams, so I like time because everyone already knows what a day is. A ticket, or a point, or other abstraction changes from team to team and project to project.
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by diiq 5y ago
Not trying to be snarky, I just didn't understand what you needed. Json import is not something any other users have brought up, but I'm happy to look into it. I'm working on CSV export , first, but I will absolutely keep th
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by diiq 5y ago
It's been my experience that most business needs involving estimates can't wait until the job is partway done. "Can we afford this" and "should we do this now" really need some up front answers :) Vistimo Quote
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by diiq 5y ago
I'm a consultant, and it happens that hardly any of my clients use Jira. So this is the result of scratching my itch (and the itch of people who already give me money) first, and dressing up the result for others to use. Lots of people

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