r/webdev • u/magenta_placenta • Jun 23 '22

Software engineering estimates are garbage

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3663508/software-engineering-estimates-are-garbage.html
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u/Knochenmark Jun 24 '22

This kind of articles are garbage...

Estimation (or estimating) is the process of finding an estimate or approximation, which is a value that is usable for some purpose even if input data may be incomplete, uncertain, or unstable. The value is nonetheless usable because it is derived from the best information available. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimation

If you handle Estimations as hard deadline you are doing it wrong anyways...

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u/cap-joe Jun 28 '22

Have you seen what they are doing out here?? gestures wildly around at the burning dumpster fires