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by mathattack 4758 days ago
"Blimey, I don't trust anyone to effectively estimate their time over any period greater than 5 days. And I tell them to add 20%..."

I find it more accurate to double the # and bump the metric.

1 hour => 2 days 3 days => 6 weeks

Estimation is one of the hardest parts of the software management.