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rhizome
on Sept 27, 2013
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Why Your Startup Can’t Find Developers
Sure, "Engineer's Savings Time" is a common imaginary time scale, which has led to a rule of thumb for engineers to triple their instinctive time estimates for tasks by default.
bandy
on Sept 27, 2013
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"Double your estimate, and convert to the next higher unit." is what I've always heard.
rhizome
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The corollary to which is "projects always slip by the units in which they were estimated." :)
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