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> And all industries also estimate how long planning will take but it's a vastly more significant for software as that's the entire thing. Which means that we'
by jacques_chester 10y ago
> And all industries also estimate how long planning will take but it's a vastly more significant for software as that's the entire thing.
Which means that we're doing it more often, so we have more data and experience to call on when estimating.
And it means it's more important to estimate the design task, since it's vastly more significant.
- wvenable 10y agoMy point is that estimating the planning (which for software dev is the software dev) isn't necessarily a solved task in any industry. So making such comparisons is meaningless.
- jacques_chester 10y agoAnd my point is that there is no such thing as a "solved" task for estimating. They're estimates. They're not called "certains", "definites" or "numerical solutions" because they are none of these things.