Apr 5, 2026 · R&D Management

How to Estimate Development Effort in the AI Coding Era?

The article explains that AI accelerates code generation but does not automatically shrink the whole delivery cycle, analyzes why traditional effort estimates become misleading, and proposes a six‑stage delivery‑focused model with practical principles and engineering safeguards for accurate estimation.

AI codingR&D managementdevelopment productivity

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How to Estimate Development Effort in the AI Coding Era?

Continuous Delivery 2.0

Mar 15, 2017 · R&D Management

Improving Continuous Integration: Reducing Build Times, Enabling Automated Testing, and Managing Estimations

The article discusses practical solutions for long C++ build times, introduces a company‑wide compile cluster with a localbuild.sh script, outlines how developers can run automated tests, defines testing strategies, sets criteria for feature readiness, and presents approaches to performance testing and estimation adjustments within a CI‑driven development workflow.

Build OptimizationCautomated testing

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Improving Continuous Integration: Reducing Build Times, Enabling Automated Testing, and Managing Estimations