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Software Estimation: A Necessary Evil
1 points by pragmaticmarg 1492 days ago
Back by popular demand, a PragPub article by Ron Jeffries on why software estimation is a necessary evil: https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/estimation-the-best-we-can-do-90e930b55ce0
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Are you Ron Jeffries? (People here is more friendly if the author is in the thread answering questions.) Are you the editor of the blog?

About the article: How does it compare with the method proposed by Joel Spolsky in https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch... ?

I don’t think it’s the author. The account looks like it posts submissions from Pragmatic Programmers blog posts.