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SEEKING WORK | Remote (happy to travel for kickoff, though) | Michigan, USA I'm Sam Bleckley, a full stack engineer with 2 decades of successful outcomes consulting across dozens o…

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SEEKING WORK | Remote | Michigan, USA I'm Sam Bleckley, a full stack engineer with over 2 decades of experience consulting across dozens of industries. I can help with: - Technical…

SEEKING WORK | United States / Michigan | Remote | Full Stack Software Engineer and Designer I'm a software engineer and designer with 2 decades of experience across a wide range o…

SEEKING WORK | United States / Michigan | Remote | Full Stack Software Engineer and Designer I'm a software engineer and designer with 2 decades of experience across a wide range o…

I absolutely agree that an arbitrary line can be drawn; I don't see that that line can be clear and bright enough that forms the kind of precedence that can be relied upon by folks…

Author here! As noted in another reply, I'm using a custom justification tool I built almost a decade ago called unjustifiable. The way it goes about it very silly; you can read mo…

That is also valuable, but a different premise! Barbara Sher originally wrote books based on that premise: find Your Thing and you'll shine -- but discovered that some people didn'…

You don't need focus; you need to understand what your goal is . If you're dropping projects that look "unfinished" because, in reality, you've gotten what you want from them, that…

This appears to be based on a strange assumption that developers' estimates can't take historical work into account, but dev managers' can; and that estimates coming from dev manag…

Absolutely, extensive notes are a huge part of my practice both on teams and solo [1] -- I'm trying to say "solve the problems you actually have" not "when solo, cowboy-code everyt…

Pretty much anyone you can pay to host a database, you can pay to back it up. Amazon rds, heroku postgres, google cloud sql... pick the service that works for you, and they have so…

Lots and lots of best practice exists specifically to help teams , and especially teams with some normal amount of turnover. The problems of a solo dev are very different than a de…

If you don't want to script your own, Vistimo Quotes lets you do monte-carlo simulation with vague, uncertain estimates; and lets you play with variables like the number of people …

I use a statistical model, where each task gets a "best case" and "worst case" estimate; those estimates are used to create a log normal distribution, and the project is simulated …

I suppose if you consider software to be somehow magically different than all the other human activities which go over-time or over-budget, maybe you could claim that research does…

Forty volumes of the "Journal of Forecasting" would be a place to start for peer-reviewed articles, I guess https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1099131x/current