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by Keyframe 1248 days ago
It does sound a bit inflated. Over the years though I’ve learned that whatever your engineering gut instinct tells you, you need to double that amount and that’ll be the actual number of people and then double to triple that amount in order to account for vacations, illnesses, maternities, people leaving and also having a new stream of people being trained in (not to be in a situation where someone leaves and no one to replace) AND then also add 10% of support staff or budget for external. This all without sales, marketing, etc.. that’s how easy it is to get inflated numbers, while it all still makes sense.