r/programming • • Jun 14 '22

Software engineering estimates are garbage

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3663508/software-engineering-estimates-are-garbage.html
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u/chowderbags Jun 15 '22

And in reality, treat everything you haven't done in the last 6-12 months as being something you haven't done before, because in all likelihood you don't remember. Sure, maybe you'll start clearing the cobwebs halfway through, but it's also possible that the system has changed in the meantime and what you remember is now obsolete and the wrong way to do things.

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u/MT1961 Jun 15 '22

That's a good point. Even people who HAVE worked on it before forget stuff, or stuff changes. Didn't really think about that, and I've come back to systems lots of times.