Hensoldt Estimates €10 Million Price Tag - Osna.FM

Airport drone protection costs can reach €10 million, warns Hensoldt, advocating caution and responsible measures instead of immediate shootdowns.

Engineers Estimate

Engineers all make estimates. Some are good, and some aren't. That's hardly unique to software engineering. Just another way software engineering IS engineering.

A proof of concept tool to verify estimates

This post was inspired by some recent discussions with Bjoern Bringmann. Symbolic math software packages are highly developed for many mathematical tasks in areas such as algebra, calculus, and num…

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Estimates and the Fog of War

A lone engineer stands at the city gate. She built a subway station here three years ago on a sunny day. On this dark, foggy night, she wishes her flashlight shone brighter, her map was up to date and that the neon signs of Ginza weren’t powered by a frozen yogurt stand ten miles away. If you’re in production, product or some other non-tech discipline, you’ve probably found yourself face-to-face with a supposedly smart and experienced engineer saying they’re unable to tell you how long it’ll take to build your next feature. Maybe they asked for a day or five to think about it. Perhaps they even said they wouldn’t be able to provide a responsible estimate until work is already underway, essentially leaving you with a dice roll and hoping for a triple natural 20.