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I only hire people who can reliably estimate. How can you call yourself a pythonista if you cant reliably estimate. Incompetent estimators have no place in my organisation.

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These estimators don't exist. Such a reliable estimator has more incentive to use his ability to estimate tech stock prices and become rich rather then work for you.

In fact hearing this line, no one will work for you. Frame it and make it your motto, see what happens.

They sort of do though. As hyperpallium alluded to above, the trick is to vastly overestimate the time required, then let Parkinson's law take up the slack.

Doesn't that prove my point? They use overestimation to hide the unpredictable nature of the project itself.

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