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well, it isn't really true. you should be able to estimate a project within an order of magnitude of time in the vast majority of instances. Think of 1 day 1
by 121789 4y ago
well, it isn't really true. you should be able to estimate a project within an order of magnitude of time in the vast majority of instances. Think of
1 day
1 week
1 month
3 months
6 months
1 year
3 years
if you had a random project, do you think you wouldn't be able to pick the most likely estimate and be within one level above or below? so "i have no idea, it'll take as long as it takes" is not really true.
- 3vidence 4y agoEven this can be really deceiving, maybe core APIs to crucial libraries get removed. As a response maybe the team either needs to migrate to a new library, or rebuild the APIs from scratch. A situation like this can turn a "X days" task into an "X months" task. I know it is not super realistic but it represents a type of situation.
- 121789 4y agothere's a big difference between "we can make a reasonable estimate based on X assumptions with Y dependencies, but there is a risk we are wrong" and "it will take an undefined amount of time, estimation is useless"