Category: time
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Project implementation time savings using coding agents
To what extent do the significant savings made from using coding agents reduce the total cost of creating a software system? The SEA Data Warehouse dataset contains detailed records of time spent in various phases of safety critical projects. Just what is needed to estimate an answer to this question, at least for safety critical…
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Detailed management data on 1,211 software projects
Until April this year there were only two non-trivial publicly available software project datasets (i.e., Sip and CESAW) containing software project data relating to human effort, e.g., people time, elapsed time, and tasks performed. The SiP data contains 10-years of software development tasks by one company, and the CESAW data contains the tasks involved in…
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Why is actual implementation time often reported in whole hours?
Estimates of the time needed to implement a software task are often given in whole hours (i.e., no minutes), with round numbers being preferred. Surprisingly, reported actual implementation times also share this ‘preference’ for whole hours and round numbers (around a third of short task estimates are accurate, so it is to be expected that…