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by rdtwo 2216 days ago
I feel like at least half the time when you give an estimate you come up against an unknown unknown. Typically some sort of edge case that requires an enormous amount of additional effort to overcome. So you end up with the 90% done on time or early but without that last 10% it does you no good and it’s really hard to get that last 10%