Man Hour Don’t Work in Software Development

Steven Bui
5 min readNov 17, 2018

TL;DR: Estimating things in man hours do not work in software development. There are better methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, and story points.

What are man hours?

It’s a unit of work done by a person within an hour. It’s commonly use to estimating how long something will take to be completed such a project or a task.

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Steven Bui

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