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		jeltz on Nov 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When did estimates turn into deadlines? Building brick walls is easy to estimate not because it is physical labor but because the company has done it many times before. Ask a construction company to estimate a unique one-off job and they will most likely fail. And that is despite them getting a lot of resources for investigating and planning which software engineers almost never get.

jappgar on Nov 20, 2024 [–]

Yes exactly this. Perhaps when I said "skill issue" I should have said "experience" instead as another poster suggested.

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