Slides as given for the Feb. 12, 2014 talk at Bay Area Software Testers.
(btw, I failed to give credit for the "Stand Back!" t-shirt image, it was from the XKCD T-shirt here: http://store-xkcd-com.myshopify.com/products/try-science)
Also forgot reference to the paper on Fibonacci numbers in planning poker affecting estimates: http://simula.no/publications/Simula.simula.1282/simula_pdf_file
3. ignoring all previous
or other projects
REFERENCE CLASS FORECASTING (OUTSIDE VIEW)
LARGE ORGS HAVE AN ADVANTAGE HERE
4. The prevalent tendency to
underweight, or
ignore, distributional
information is perhaps the major
error of intuitive prediction.
TVERSKY & KAHNEMAN, 1977
5. Bad habit number 8
ignoring variability
of velocity
VELOCITY CAN EXHIBIT A ± 2× SPREAD OF VARIATION
31. Resources
50 Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories (In-progress Leanpub e-book)
◦ http://leanpub.com/50quickideas
Throughput (Blog entry by Zsolt Fabók)
◦ http://zsoltfabok.com/blog/2014/01/throughput/
Intuitive Prediction (1977 paper by Kahneman & Tversky about the "planning fallacy")
◦ http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA047747
Judgment under uncertainty (1974 paper by Tversky & Kahneman)
◦ http://www.sciencemag.org/content/185/4157/1124.short
Delusions of Success: How Optimism Undermines Executives' Decisions (Lovallo & Kahneman)
◦ http://j.mp/delusions-of-success
Modeling, Simulation & data mining (Slides from Troy Magennis & Larry Maccherone)
◦ http://j.mp/simulation-magennis
Estimates in Software Development (Dubakov, May 2013)
◦ http://www.targetprocess.com/articles/estimates-software-development.html