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Blog @romenrg is a personal blog at romenrg.com about programming, startups and career. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Software Projects vs. Software Products”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link these posts as related reading on estimating software development time and on software projects versus products. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts and experiences; about software, internet and entrepreneurship. Writing about Agile Software Development, Lean Startup and the growing implications of technology on society. Also about innovation, startups, digital marketing and UX. Focused on peopleware, the human side of technology.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2015/09/28/why-asking-developers-for-time-estimates-in-software-projects-is-a-terrible-idea-and-how-to-bypass-it-with-scrum/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-06-19
- Software Projects vs. Software Products2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-08
What Hacker News says?
"Maybe your team is bad at estimating." To a first approximation, everyone is bad at estimating software development times. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12149515 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4328660 and http://www.romenrg.com/blog/2015/09/28/why-asking-developers... and The Mythical Man-Month, too.
Comment linking /blog/2015/09/28/why-asking-developers-for-time-estimates-in-software-projects-is-a-terrible-idea-and-how-to-bypass-it-with-scrum/
on “Lessons from “The Profit””Submitted The Programmer's Bill of Rights, Revisited as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA very related difference is "Product Manager vs Project Manager". It may sound obvious to some, but I still encounter many people in the industry referring to Software Products as Software Projects, even though there are relevant ramifications when thinking in terms of Projects vs in term of Products. I recently decided to dig into that discussion in my post: "Software Projects vs Software Products": https://www.ro…
Comment linking /blog/2020/12/30/software-projects-vs-software-products/
on “Product Manager vs. Product Marketing Manager vs. Product Owner”Submitted Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment: Key Differences as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGreat topic. Given the fact that we, developers (as humans), are terrible estimating in time tasks with a high degree of uncertainty (most cases in software development), the most effective way I have found after many years in the field is using velocity (based on effort points) as a (project-dependant) predictor, while applying Scrum, as described in the following article in detail: "Why Asking Developers for Time…
Comment linking /blog/2015/09/28/why-asking-developers-for-time-estimates-in-software-projects-is-a-terrible-idea-and-how-to-bypass-it-with-scrum/
on “Ask HN: Best practice for estimating development tasks?”Submitted Software Projects vs. Software Products as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis article may help: Why Asking Developers for Time Estimates in Software Projects Is a Terrible Idea and How to Bypass It With Scrum: http://www.romenrg.com/blog/2015/09/28/why-asking-developers...
Comment linking /blog/2015/09/28/why-asking-developers-for-time-estimates-in-software-projects-is-a-terrible-idea-and-how-to-bypass-it-with-scrum/
on “How to become better at software estimations”Submitted The Programmer Bill of Rights, Revisited (2016) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes a Great Software Engineer as a story · 2 points
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