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I started experimenting and I think this builds out pretty neat estimations from jira tickets/other descriptions. When I was sitting in the CTO role, I spent a ton of time talking with people about how long/short various projects would be. When I was a developer, I hated the estimation piece because it felt like it was both keeping me from building and was almost never done with enough context to get really accurate results.

I was playing with the OpenAI API and I noticed that they can actually return a set of probability x next tokens and I thought that it might actually give you kind of cool ways to see the distribution of potential outcomes. (You can see an example here: https://universalestimator.com/estimates/c68db45b-7622-4bab-... that looks at a detailed ticket for implementing filtering on a dashboard.)

Let me know if you have any feedback, it's free with the promo code TYHN. If you run into any issues, please send me an email at earl@unbrandedsoftware.com



Cool idea! Does it take your team’s prior estimations into account to improve future estimates?


No, but it's on my roadmap! https://feedback.universalestimator.com/p/calibrationnorms-f...

Right now, it asks you some follow up questions and assumes you're a medium sized org, but I'd like to start to move that into configuration and do some sort of time/bayesian expiration of memory/information as part of the questions it asks.

I think a ton of the variance between teams is probably captured by some version of a few calibration questions, aka: - How large is the org? - What region is your org based in? - How long does it take to get the smallest possible change into production?




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