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Limits of Estimating   Comments

Whenever you start a software project, it seems like someone above you wants a schedule.

Now.

Never mind that you haven’t collected requirements, never mind that you haven’t designed the product, much less the program. Never mind that you don’t know who’s going to be on the team or even how large the team is. And they don’t really care about the schedule, anyway. They just want to know that the software will be done by X date.

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Did I mention that it’s dumb?
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