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No one sane is asking for exact estimates … It's not a deceptive or inefficient practice, it's managing uncertainty. Part of the issue is that the asking for e
by thwarted 11y ago
No one sane is asking for exact estimates … It's not a deceptive or inefficient practice, it's managing uncertainty.
Part of the issue is that the asking for estimates ends up getting turned into exacting time requirements as an attempt to control and manage uncertainty. And often, many of the people who turn estimates into requirements are, arguably, insane, because they are trying to manage the uncertainty in the wrong way.
- Gibbon1 11y agoI've taken to just telling my boss whether I think something is 'just work', 'tricky' or 'hard'. And about howm much of that he's asking for, Just Work: Means are the pieces are there to do whats wanted. Tricky: Means I need to create something from scratch or modify two or more modules. Hard: Anything to do with timing, interrupts, or that involves re-organizing swaths of unrelated code. Hard2: I have to learn a new language, frame-work, microprocessor, etc.