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The fact that fudging it by 3, is now so popular, just indicates we can't really do estimates very well.
by UK-AL 9y ago
The fact that fudging it by 3, is now so popular, just indicates we can't really do estimates very well.
- jakubp 9y agoOr perhaps it's simply an empirical measure of the typical ratio of known to unknown in software engineering: 1:2. It can be used as a heuristic to accommodate for the fact that we have biases and can't predict everything, but the industry as a whole has found a way around that.