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thebiss on May 3, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rules of thumb for software development estimation...

Microsoft Project does support PERT estimates, though it's difficult to find and use: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/expected-duration...

kqr on May 3, 2023 [–]

Doesn't PERT prescribe simply adding together the optimistic and pessimistic cases with each other? Percentiles are not additive.

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