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How can I calculate the copy overhead per file?

If given a mapping of file sizes to their respective transfer times, how can I approximate the constant factor that each file will have as overhead? E.g. File size Transfer time -------------------------------- 1 kB …
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Estimating a project with many unknowns

I'm working on a project with many unknowns like moving the app from one platform to another. My original estimations are way off and there is no way I can really know for sure when this will end. How can i deal with the inability to estimate such a…
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Can anyone recommend the maximum number of hours a task should be in a project estimate breakdown?

What I mean is if I am breaking a programming project estimate down into tasks as much as possible would there be a good maximum to make the tasks. Meaning if I say the max is 4-6 then if any task is more hours than that it needs to be broken down…
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iOS - How to find the estimated time left for uploading a file

I have a scenario in which I have to inform user about how much time their file would take to successfully upload to FTP Server using internet. I am here if someone have any idea or suggestions on how to do that? I know that it would take the size…
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Tuleap - Estimated Time Response

Is it possible to calculate the time based response in Tuleap. What i mean is that when a task was submitted, Tuleap by default can capture the submitted on value (date and time), now i want to know whether Tuleap can set up the estimated time value…
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Calculate % Accuracy: (Actual Date - Plan Date) / Plan Date IN ms sql 2010 OR 2013

Calculate % Accuracy: (Actual Date - Plan Date) / Plan Date ~ 4.2% Over or Under depending on the dates. I have a datediff for the dividend, but not the divisor. I can perform in excel but not in sql. How accurate is your estimate? Plan Deploy…
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Look for measure of time estimation in issue tracking software

We have standard issue tracking system (home grown for internal use only) and plan to add planing capabilities as all task have all necessary data to make estimation. So each task have: more or less accurate estimated time accurate spent time more…
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Unit for estimating hours in Scrum tool

I've been learning Scrum and trying a tool called Acunote for use with it. My question is about two fields I have there, for each task. They're "estimate" and "remaining". What unit should I use for those? Do I use Story Points? What about the…
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Java Thread getting elapsed time :: how to get small change

Here is my run for method for thread public void run() { float timeElapsed =0; while(running){ time += timeElapsed; // recording time. if(timeElapsed != 0 )Log.d(id, "pressed time " + time + " "+ timeElapsed); /**fromhere ::…
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How to calculate waiting time for customer based on previous customers's waiting time

Can anyone suggest a method to calculate customer waiting time for a restaurant based on previous waiting times. My system stores the waiting time of each customer and based on this values i want to predict the waiting time for next customer.
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How to do Time Estimation in new Projects

I am new for this Responsibility, however I have analyzed many projects as a Software Developer and given time estimation of the task. But it is difficult when you are Team leader and don't know about your developers skills. because sometimes it…
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Why does _DateDiff() return 0?

My AutoIt script should predict when a process will complete by saying The process will be complete at 3:18:24 PM. But that is not happening. It takes these input values: Starting time Starting percentage Current time Current percentage It…
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Estimating when it's done in excel

Can I, somehow, based on time stamp and how much is done, estimate time and date for when a job is complete? I got this log that a bot I've made writes in column A time [yyy-mm-dd hh:mm], and in column B it wrights how much is done. It sorts it all…
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