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Evidence-based Scheduling is a software estimation approach created by Joel Spolsky, a very [http://www.amazon.com/Joel-Software-Occasionally-Developers-Designers/dp/1590593898/ well-regarded commentator] on software engineering principles.
 
The previous page describing the approach was deleted on the grounds of it being blatant advertising (Spolsky's company sells a tool which includes it as a feature). It was recreated on the grounds that this technique is an important software engineering technique for the [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8876/evidence-based-scheduling-tool community] and Spolsky's original blog posting <ref name="EBS">[http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html], Evidence-based Scheduling blog posting 2007</ref> of the idea is sufficiently clear for anyone to implement it.
 
One of the core ideas of Evidence-based Scheduling, that adds to the normal estimation practices, is the idea of '''including all time spent, regardless of relevance'''.