I am a quant dev with a big C++ quant project and am charged with estimating how long it will take me to deliver. I have 3 days to produce the estimate.
I think that tentatively, management expect me to give a figure around the three months mark.
This project involves enhancing legacy code.
Can anyone give any guidance to resources on how to produce an estimate? Of course, it's notoriously difficult to tell when a several-months project can be delivered. It must be a common problem, and I'm sure there's a fair amount of literature on project
estimation but it would be good to see resources that are specifically oriented towards C++ quant projects rather than the completely
general case.
One thing that might be helpful might be info about how long various quantlib enhancements took. This library is more similar to
quantlib than any other readily available library. Any thoughts? Thanks a lot.
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