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> "He guessed that the problem might take him a few weeks. Instead, it took him five years" >> Perhaps the key to their success was typically programming work
by A_Person 9y ago
> "He guessed that the problem might take him a few weeks. Instead, it took him five years"
>> Perhaps the key to their success was typically programming work estimations ;)
No, you should always normalize programmer estimates by increasing both the unit and the measure by one. So "a few weeks", say 4 weeks, will actually take: 5 months! So he still took 12 times longer than the properly normalized estimate! :-)