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Are There Limits to Software Estimation?

Posted by timothy on from the semantics-and-realities dept.

Charles Connell submitted this analysis on software estimation, a topic which keeps coming up because it affects so many many programmers. Read this post about J.P. Lewis's earlier piece as well, if you'd like more background information.

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  1. Re:Of course there are limits. by ahde · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    and then the next day the database changes
    and the next the business rules that determine the queries
    and then there's a data change that would be faster to change by hand 1000 times than build the regexp to do it for you.
    and then there's data corruption because of a solar flare.