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A comment on The Eternal Struggle Between Business and Programmers. Parent comment

Re:The Eternal Struggle Between Business and Programmers by bippi on Thursday May 15, 2014 @02:06PM (#7751124)
I applaud the thought, but then they have to have an estimate of how long the estimate will take... which often ends-up wrong.
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Re:The Eternal Struggle Between Business and Programmers by etler on Thursday May 15, 2014 @03:33PM (#7751673)
That's true :) But at least the absolute amount wrong will be hours or days, instead of weeks or months. Also, you can leave it a bit more vague and just say "I need to explore the problem space a bit before giving an estimate".
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