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> People want ‘estimates’ at all costs, tell you to not worry about any accuracy, and then a week later tell your manager you committed to x date. I like to ha
by mcherm 8y ago
> People want ‘estimates’ at all costs, tell you to not worry about any accuracy, and then a week later tell your manager you committed to x date.
I like to handle this problem by providing an estimate RANGE.
- TheHypnotist 8y agoTypically when we need something budgetary from a vendor we use the +/- 50% rule. That shouldn't be hard not to screw up.
- Aeolun 8y agoThat doesn’t really matter. In these cases you often have information akin to ‘we want a webshop’, so you estimate something more or less reasonable, then a few weeks later you find out they actually meant ‘we want a duplicate of Amazon’.