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> Second, how well can you predict what you can achieve as a developer in one day vs one hundred days? The estimate for the former is more reliable.

I’m not so sure that’s true. I mean, it’s probably not worse but often I find that my gut feel of “it’ll take for weeks” is more accurate than trying to break the feature down beforehand and add up the parts. I’ve always said that the estimation process rests on the hope that if you break a big wild-ass guess into a lot of smaller wild-ass guesses, the errors will cancel out. I don’t think that’s always the case.




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