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Re:Ask HN: What non-technical skills make a senior dev and h... by hluska on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @02:21PM (#11910988)
I'm not terribly good at this, but I've had some luck taking the first answer that pops to mind and multiplying it by three. It's a crude method, but over time, it has worked well for me.
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Re:Ask HN: What non-technical skills make a senior dev and h... by avn2109 on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @05:02PM (#11912121)
This usually works OK in practice for small or medium projects, but as Brooks points out in the Mythical Man Month, you are also tripling your estimation error. This can cause a lot of divergence for longer projects.
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