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Re:Ask HN: How do you do estimates in 2021? by erdo on Sunday September 26, 2021 @06:22PM (#28665203)
Some sales people work out how much the client is willing to pay, and that's the price. The deliverables are squeezed in to that price at a later date, by cutting corners if necessary - I think it's quite an effective way for companies to make money.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you do estimates in 2021? by KronisLV on Sunday September 26, 2021 @06:30PM (#28665265)
Make money? Sure.

Deliver working software? Perhaps.

Deliver quality software? Almost certainly not.

Now, whether people actually want quality software, given that its development would take a lot of time, is debatable. Many times being the first to market is good enough, though saying that leaves a sour taste in my mouth as an engineer.

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