Another thing to note is the interaction of 7 and 9. You have to ask yourself is there a chance you don't understand the code well enough to estimate the amout of work required correctly? Daniel Kahneman, for instance, has written about the tendency to underestimate the amount of work needed to complete a task when it's us doing it.
Joel Spolsky's blog on this topic is worth reading too.
Very good point! This definitely needs a contingency plan for when you think it's going to take you a week and a month later you're still stuck. Somewhere in there I think the sunk cost fallicy comes into play.
Love that post from Joel, had read it ages ago but it definitely still holds true!
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A good list of questions.
Another thing to note is the interaction of 7 and 9. You have to ask yourself is there a chance you don't understand the code well enough to estimate the amout of work required correctly? Daniel Kahneman, for instance, has written about the tendency to underestimate the amount of work needed to complete a task when it's us doing it.
Joel Spolsky's blog on this topic is worth reading too.
Very good point! This definitely needs a contingency plan for when you think it's going to take you a week and a month later you're still stuck. Somewhere in there I think the sunk cost fallicy comes into play.
Love that post from Joel, had read it ages ago but it definitely still holds true!