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That sounds a bit extreme? True, estimation is hard, but surely we can differentiate between 1-2 day work, 1-2 week work and a big scary project with a lot of risk. That's what T-shirt sizes are for.


And if a bug in a library stops you from completing your work so you have to develop a workaround, and adds several days to your “1-2 day task”? The estimate is wrong.

There are simply too many unknowns in other libraries and systems to be accurate.




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