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by catchnear4321 1104 days ago
likely because of your assumption that high paid consultants make accurate estimates.

they do get paid more.

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No my assumption isn’t that consultants make good estimates. It is that nobody in our entire industry knows how to accurately estimate how long a software project will take, so I would be a highly sought-after rare commodity in our industry.