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Re:Starting a new job – What can I do to avoid getting fired? by jon-wood on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @10:06AM (#11430449)
You're pretty new to the industry I'm guessing. Estimation is one of the hardest things a developer can be asked to do, and the only technique that will consistently work is getting experience so that you have similar tasks to compare the one you're estimating to.

In the meantime, try to break things down if you can't even start on an estimate - what are the steps involved in making Task X happen? Keep breaking those tasks down until you get to something you can estimate. That's what the estimation time you ask for is used for.

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Re:Starting a new job – What can I do to avoid getting fired? by distracted828 on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @06:17PM (#11435011)
Yea, I've only had about 4 years since I got out of school. Trying to be better able to break the task down is part of why I want to do the studying
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