Software Best Practices

Cool. This all matches up pretty well with what I was thinking. Reading Steve's reply I realize that mathematically what PERT is asking for is in fact the mode (most likely) and that the expected value needs to be calculated from that. I think that my confusion came from the fact that for most reasonable...

Okay, so I ran into a problem today. What in the heck do we really mean when we give an effort estimate and say... "I think best case this will take me 4 days, worst case is 16 days, and the expected is 6 days ." Is that "expected" we talk about the mean, the median, the mode, the...