[Engineering] Fwd: Tech Talk: A Hands-on Estimation Exercise, With Discussion: Feb 8th

Sat Feb 6 01:00:54 UTC 2016

The tech talk below will be on Monday. If you are remote and would like to
join the hangout directly instead of following along on YouTube please let
me know. If you are going to be in SF on Monday this will start at 10:30am
and and be in R37 Chambers.

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From: Rachel Farrand <rfarrand at wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 4:59 PM
Subject: Tech Talk: A Hands-on Estimation Exercise, With Discussion: Feb 8th
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

Please join for the following tech talk:

*Tech Talk**:* A Hands-on Estimation Exercise, With Discussion
*Presenter:* Joel Aufrecht
*Date:* February 8th, 2016
*Time: *18:30 UTC
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+A+Hands-on+Estimation+Exercise%2C+With+Discussion&iso=20160208T1830&p1=%3A&ah=1>
Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-zLwTez46M>
*IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office

*Summary: *Estimation is an unnatural activity for human brains, which tend
to hide our own ignorance from us.  This brown-bag begins with an exercise,
adapted from Steve McConnell's software estimation training, in balancing
accuracy with precision.  The exercise is fully available to remotees.
Facilitated discussion follows, on what we can learn from the exercise and
on general estimation and forecasting topics as raised.
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