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At that point, you are estimating EFFORT, not time. Software engineers are REALLY GOOD at estimating effort. The fact that they translate to time (simple == several days) is ephemeral.


I think that is how Agile is suposed to work. The programmer stimates how hard the task is relative to other task he has done.


Right, but they were asked to estimate TIME, not EFFORT.


>Software engineers are REALLY GOOD at estimating effort.

The most common problem with estimates is hidden or forgotten complexity, which makes both time and "effort", whatever that means, go up.




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