[Lio]

Of course you have that problem inside s company building software.

Engineers low ball partly because they don’t know what’s involved in a new piece of work. Like walking between two points on a map; they don’t know what they’ll run into on the ground.

Managers and stake holders then bully the engineers into lowering the estimates because even that’s not quick enough. Worse, they scale the team without discussion without realising that will make the project harder to deliver.

[jshen]

Those are bad managers. I always add a buffer on top of the buffer the engineers add themselves.

[jacquesm]

Bad managers are very common.