Programmer Time Translation Cheatsheet -or- Why Programmers Are Bad at Estimating Times | Architects Zone

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[maisenakajima]

An experienced project manager I used to work with claimed that he took the programmers’ time estimates, multiplied by pi and converted to the next time magnitude to get the true number.

[shun_tak]

これはよいまとめ “@dentomo: なぜプログラマは時間の見積もりが苦手なのか（見積もり⇔実時間変換チートシートつき）き）