Re:Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule
by ethbr0 on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @12:29PM
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And for the same reason that software estimates suck.
The lower bound is quantifiable: if everything goes as expected, and this is all the work, then project time is the sum of each piece's time.
But the upper bound is unknowable. If a thing that we don't know about happens, how long will it take to solve, if a solution is possible? And what portion of the project will it involve?
But that's really a gripe about PMs not understanding compositions of multiple normal distributions.
The lower bound is quantifiable: if everything goes as expected, and this is all the work, then project time is the sum of each piece's time.
But the upper bound is unknowable. If a thing that we don't know about happens, how long will it take to solve, if a solution is possible? And what portion of the project will it involve?
But that's really a gripe about PMs not understanding compositions of multiple normal distributions.