Software Estimation: Points vs. Time

When to use both estimation Techniques

Amanda Quint
Better Programming
Published in
5 min readMar 29, 2022

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Estimating software projects is difficult, but no matter if you work for yourself or for a company, you will want to have an idea of how long a task will take and how much effort it is.

Some teams prefer to estimate in units of time, such as hours or days. Since they’re using time, they can roughly predict when…

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