[New Process Improvement Need]: Estimating task completion times better
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governance
medium complexity
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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- 36
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Description
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Yes - I've already checked
Category
Governance - people, personnel, organization, etc.
Describe the need
We have a need for best practices on developing confident completion time estimates for complex tasks (+1'd by @mike-gangl @kgrimes2 @stirlingalgermissen)
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. First clarify the expected scope and audience for best practices on estimating complex task completion times; done should be a reviewed, actionable document covering that need.
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Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100