<div dir="ltr"><div>The tech talk below will be on Monday. If you are remote and would like to join the hangout directly instead of following along on YouTube please let me know. If you are going to be in SF on Monday this will start at 10:30am and and be in R37 Chambers. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Rachel Farrand</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfarrand@wikimedia.org">rfarrand@wikimedia.org</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 4:59 PM<br>Subject: Tech Talk: A Hands-on Estimation Exercise, With Discussion: Feb 8th<br>To: Wikimedia developers <<a href="mailto:wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.5714px">Please join for the following <span style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span>tech</span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span>talk</span></span></span></span></span></span>:</div><div style="font-size:12.5714px"><br></div><b style="font-size:12.5714px"><span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span>Tech</span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span>Talk</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.5714px"><b>:</b> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">A Hands-on Estimation Exercise, With Discussion</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.5714px"><b>Presenter:</b> Joel Aufrecht</font><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.5714px"><br></font><div style="font-size:12.5714px"><b>Date:</b> February 8th, 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.5714px"><b>Time: </b><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+A+Hands-on+Estimation+Exercise%2C+With+Discussion&iso=20160208T1830&p1=%3A&ah=1" target="_blank">18:30 UTC</a></div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-zLwTez46M" target="_blank">Link to live YouTube stream</a><div style="font-size:12.5714px"><b>IRC channel for questions/discussion:</b> #wikimedia-office</div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe UI Web Regular','Segoe UI Symbol','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.85px"><b>Summary: </b><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Estimation is an unnatural activity for human brains, which tend to hide our own ignorance from us.  This brown-bag begins with an exercise, adapted from Steve McConnell's software estimation training, in balancing accuracy with precision.  The exercise is fully available to remotees.  Facilitated discussion follows, on what we can learn from the exercise and on general estimation and forecasting topics as raised.</span></p></div></div></div>
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