[yakult]

The lesson there is that people have unrealistic budget and schedule expectations of large IT projects. Same with defense, medicare, etc.

[Haydos585x2]

I think it's just with everything. I saw a tweet once that was something like: "If you ask a programmer how long an hour will take they'll tell you 45 minutes"

[a3n]

That's because they only count the part that they're working on. The rest of the Hour project includes standups, testing, documentation, deployment, retrospectives and post-mortems, team happy hours, ...

[lostboys67]

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