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The 10x developer myth (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Is Estimating Reliable?

The best you're ever going to do, probably on a project of about a day, is going to be somewhere round plus or minus 30%. That's just life. The distribution of the times was justre markably consistent. Days when slower were days when they're faster. In the middle tend to have more jiddly-wills than in the extremes. So that's where you saw most of the real variation. And i could actually, rather than looking at their si, at the size of the programme and lines of cot or anything, just said how long to take them to finish,. ok?

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