Have you taken into account that you may not know the specific abilities of the team in question? I regularly increase my team's estimates because I know we hav

Have you taken into account that you may not know the specific abilities of the team in question? I regularly increase my team's estimates because I know we have slow-performing individuals. It's part of the package that we have a mandate to up-skill and share knowledge. Could I do the work myself in a week? Yes. Can I assign it to a team of diverse junior to mid-level developers and expect them to do it in a week as well? Realistically, no. They have to investigate, acquire knowledge, work together, be guided on the correct design (or get to it themselves), and then finally do the work and test it to sufficient quality. Even more so the case if it's tech we have not worked with before.