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The problem is the writer of the question is conflating two things. Their quote: "A. Give a very wide estimate with a lot of padding. B. Get pressured to be mor
by joe_the_user 4y ago
The problem is the writer of the question is conflating two things. Their quote: "A. Give a very wide estimate with a lot of padding. B. Get pressured to be more accurate and to bring the estimate down..." The real problem seems to be getting pressured to reduce their estimate, they only summarize things as the problem being that they're asked for an estimate at all.
- lazyasciiart 4y agoI’ve known people whose version of A was “between a year and five years” for something where five years was clearly a ludicrous amount of time to spend and a year would be stunning. In those cases, the problem is that they aren’t really bothering to give an estimate at first, so the pressure to give one continues.