Estimation or, “How to Dig you own Grave”

Rowan Merewood (28.Jan.2012 at 10:10)
Talk at PHPBenelux Conference 2012 (English - US)

Rating: 5 of 5

Clients need to know how much a project will cost. Waterfall development is always late and over-budget. Agile development is done when it’s done. You’re left with estimates that you know are too low and then you squeeze them anyway. It shouldn’t be this way. We’ll look at how this happens, early warning signs, ways out and ways of avoiding it in the first place.

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Rating: 5 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 10:06 by Anonymous

Enjoyed the talk, have some things to think about.

Rating: 4 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 10:06 by Anonymous

More talks about process please! These are at least as interesting as pure tech talks.

Rating: 5 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 10:11 by Annelies Bollen

Real, real interesting! Lots to meditate about.

Rating: 5 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 10:14 by Rowdy Rabouw

Great talk! Have more of these to have a good balance between tech and process.

Rating: 5 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 10:16 by Mattias Geniar via api

Obviously you are a well experienced speaker, you have a way to talk while keeping you audience motivated. Great points in the presentation, I learned a lot!

Rating: 4 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 10:23 by Stefan Koopmanschap

As always, it was a pleasure to hear Rowan speak about a subject. Slides were perfectly done, stories were good.

Rating: 5 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 10:26 by Ike Devolder

thanks i learned a lot of stuff i did not know at all about estimation
till now i always felt it as being a thing to annoy you with, but it has some benefits if done well, thx

Rating: 5 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 10:29 by Dave Hoebe via api

It was a pleasure to listen to this talk. I learned a lot about mistakes i was making doing estimates even when the solution is so obvious.

Rating: 5 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 16:48 by Dennis van den Ende via api

Just great

Rating: 5 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 18:02 by Ivo Jansch

Great talk. Love rowan's calm and clear presentation style. Slide theme was awesome too!

Rating: 5 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 18:30 by Pieter Macquoy

Great presentation and great speaker.

Rating: 5 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 18:41 by Taco van den Broek via api

everybody should see this talk!

Rating: 5 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 19:00 by Pim Elshoff

Very enjoying, informative and engaging talk. No comments, really!

Rating: 5 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 20:00 by Erik Snoeijs

Awesome talk. Although I kind of missed all the slapstick that happened at the PHPNW rendition of this talk.

Rating: 5 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 20:24 by M. de Krijger

As usual a great enjoyable talk! Not all new, but will definitely take some advantage in avoiding common pitfalls. Thnx

Rating: 4 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 21:16 by Anonymous


Rating: 5 of 5

28.Jan.2012 at 21:52 by Anonymous


Rating: 5 of 5

29.Jan.2012 at 11:27 by Tom Van Herreweghe

Great talk, excellent slides. It was really interesting for me to find out more about estimations. They can be hell to do, especially when you totally miss the mark.

Rating: 5 of 5

29.Jan.2012 at 15:48 by Harrie Verveer

Rowan is a natural born speaker with the ability to present anything in a very engaging, clear and entertaining way. Interesting talk with some good points about estimations. I liked every bit of it - and the slides were simply amazing. Job well done!

Rating: 5 of 5

29.Jan.2012 at 20:07 by Patrick van Kouteren

This was the first presentation of Rowan I saw, but man, this guy can present! He's calm, he's clear in what he has to say, but he also speaks very clearly. Add some experience and an interesting subject to that and you get an excellent mix for a talk.
I hope his pointers help me improve my estimates :-)

Rating: 5 of 5

29.Jan.2012 at 20:26 by Anonymous


Rating: 5 of 5

29.Jan.2012 at 20:28 by Bart Reunes

It is certainly impossible to loose interest during this talk! Entertaining speaker, with interesting examples and explanations why and how to do things one way or another. Came out of this one with the great feeling that I'm actually not the only one doing some things wrong, ánd the knowledge about how to do it right - starting right after the talk. An "almost quarter of a day" well spent!

And if you don't want to know about estimation or graves, do it for the pictures...

Rating: 5 of 5

29.Jan.2012 at 20:34 by Sebastian Marek

Rowan did a splendid job as usual. Nothing new I have learned but it was a please watching him on stage. It's always so much fun. And slides... oh I am jealous! I have no idea how he find the content for his slides and where does he find the inspiration!

Rating: 5 of 5

29.Jan.2012 at 21:16 by Joris Steyn

Very, very entertaining, solid presentation!

Rating: 5 of 5

30.Jan.2012 at 08:04 by Kristian Zondervan

Great talk, good speaker, funny slides. This talk was both entertaining and educational.

Rating: 5 of 5

30.Jan.2012 at 08:59 by Nick Belhomme

Perfectly presented backed up with an awesome deck. Well done Sir!!!

Rating: 5 of 5

30.Jan.2012 at 09:12 by Sjoerd Peters

Great talk, good slides a pleasure to listen to someone with real presenting skills.

Rating: 5 of 5

30.Jan.2012 at 18:13 by Jeroen de Jong

very nice talk with great slides!
although I did not hear anything surprisingly, it was great hearing how everything should work to remind it to me again :)

Rating: 5 of 5

31.Jan.2012 at 20:33 by Lineke Kerckhoffs-Willems

Great slides and a very good talk. Although I knew most of it, it can't hurt to be reminded of some things once in a while. You are a very good speaker and I loved seeing you dance (or something like that) on stage :)

One comment on the content for improvement:
It wasn't always clear to me how the first part of the presentation was build up. The estimation during the sale process was very obvious, but how to estimate when the project starts, especially when you use a waterfall method instead of agile, wasn't very clear.

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