Re:“It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”
by bhartzer on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @11:20AM
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Properly estimating is not just difficult in your field, it's difficult anywhere in 'software' or tech. You always run into issues along the way, and you have to deal with them.
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Re:“It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”
by ergothus on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @12:33PM
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I usually attribute this to the idea of reuse: by definition, every software problem we are solving is "new", because if it wasn't new we'd just use existing solutions and there'd be no team. (Now there are people that insist on resolving problems, but they put themselves into the "new" category by choice).
New problems mean unknown ways to fail === hard to estimate