FogBugz (lead by famous blogger Joel Spolsky) just released version 6.0. With it they are making waves due to the inclusion of evidence based scheduling.
Evidence based scheduling tracks developer estimates per feature against actual time spent (including interruption time) to determine estimate accuracy and plot a distribution curve of likelihood of shipping software on time.
My question is: how can we leverage this type of mechanism at a company that does many, many small projects? Are the projects similar enough that this would help? Could each project be treated as a sprint (or sprints) in an overall continued effort?
Read this post for an overview of evidence based scheduling:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html
Read some reactions to the feature:
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