I know this is kind of a soft problem and is highly dependent on the context of a project.
For my own projects, I use scrum points to estimate how much effort it will require to reach to a certain point. I measured my throughput and it seems like, with the amount of time left from my daily job, I can complete around 100 points every month.
Recently, this idea is stuck in my head. Every (web/mobile) project requires a certain set of requirements such as:
Authentication and authorization
Performance metrics and logging
Storage
CRUD for each model etc.
Of course, mostly through Firebase.
I was wondering if there’s a way, a website or a platform maybe, to define a list of features/stories and get an estimated total points.
I’ve been at a bunch of companies that use those processes and at best they are like weather forecasting. You can figure out what season you are in, and you can predict the activity of the next few days, but beyond that they are imprecise to the point of uselessness. For freelancing you mostly have to have done such projects all-up already, so you know what you are getting into; and have an idea of what code is out there that you can re-use in your project.
Expect to take horrible beatings on schedules multiple times. And be willing to turn away proposals if you’re not comfortable with the timeframes and other issues. As a solo provider there is a limit to how much uncertainty you can absorb.
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I’ve been at a bunch of companies that use those processes and at best they are like weather forecasting. You can figure out what season you are in, and you can predict the activity of the next few days, but beyond that they are imprecise to the point of uselessness. For freelancing you mostly have to have done such projects all-up already, so you know what you are getting into; and have an idea of what code is out there that you can re-use in your project.
Expect to take horrible beatings on schedules multiple times. And be willing to turn away proposals if you’re not comfortable with the timeframes and other issues. As a solo provider there is a limit to how much uncertainty you can absorb.