> Saying "Humans suck at estimating" is nonsense. It's a skill that can easily be improved - usually at the cost of some up front planning - and there are plent

> Saying "Humans suck at estimating" is nonsense. It's a skill that can easily be improved - usually at the cost of some up front planning - and there are plenty of resources to help you with that. Not sure if we think about different things when saying "estimate", but I rarely was able to estimate more precise than "6 to 12 weeks". Unless I am doing something absolutely straightforward, I never really can give good estimate (and since I am forced to do - I just give some random number with a lot of padding which I "feel" I should be able to fit in) In my practice so far to give good estimate means doing 80% of actual work and leaving these straightforward bits to finish it off. These last pieces are easy to estimate usually, but not before main work is done.