Estimating Challenges
Michael, Joe, and Alan discuss the frustrations of estimating in software development, highlighting the pressure to provide accurate estimates and the pitfalls of padding them. The team shares anecdotes about the difficulties of pleasing stakeholders and the delicate balance between overestimating and underestimating project timelines.In this clip
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Why do things take so much more time than expected, especially as a developer, as discussed in the episode The Pragmatic Programmer - How to Estimate and the clip Estimating Long Term Projects?
Why do we overestimate time in the episode The Pragmatic Programmer - How to Estimate and in the clip Estimating Challenges from the episode Lessons - Six Cognitive Distortions that Waste Your Time and the clip Time Management Insights?
Why do things take so much more time than expected, especially as a developer, as discussed in the episode "The Pragmatic Programmer - How to Estimate" and the clip "Efficient Project Planning," as well as in episode #140: "Invest Your Time Like Money With Elizabeth Grace Saunders" and the clip "Project Time Estimation"?