If someone can teach _any_ programmer how to estimate accurately they will literally print money. Its inherently a hard problem (I'd argue a siren song). To tru

If someone can teach _any_ programmer how to estimate accurately they will literally print money. Its inherently a hard problem (I'd argue a siren song). To truly succeed you need to perform a massive stakeholder education on software development, hidden costs, and the highly dynamic nature of the beast. Then you need to train the IT professionals to build the dynamic nature into the conversation and process. You dont quote a number, you give a range. You communicate confidence levels and uncertainty clearly and continuously. You update assumptions as new information comes available. You _push back_ when the uncertainty is frowned on. It can be done successfully on a micro scale sure, by working on it within an organization and/or team. But its not scalable and its not a 5-step plan. Its hard.