EstiMate CLI

CLI tool for quickly drafting project estimations. When you need to estimate a task, or a small project, then this is a tool for you. Open a command line, start EstiMate type in your estimations, and see how much time the whole project is going to take. After that you can export the results to a CSV file, so you can import it into a spreadsheet, and send to a project manager or sales colleague for example.

The three-point estimation technique is used. It means you have to give 3 estimations for a task instead of one. The 3 estimate are the best case, worst case, and most likely. This is more flexible, easier to express uncertainity about tasks.

Installation

npm i esti-mate-cli -g

Start

Start with the command:

esti-mate-cli

or with the shorter command:

emc

Usage

The project is automatically saved to a JSON file in the directory where the CLI has been started after every modification. You don't have to save manually.

• Select a project
• Create project
• Working with project
  • Add task
  • Show project summary
  • Show tasks
  • Show tags
  • Modifing tasks
  • Export tasks to CSV
  • Export tags to CSV

Data handling

Your data will not be sent over the network. No analytics data is gathered currently. EstiMate only creates a JSON file in the folder, you are running it in, to store the data You enter. Other files(e.g.: CSV) may be created when You want to export your data in an other format.