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Ben Halpern

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.

-Tom Cargill

There’s even a Wikipedia page about the 90-90 rule.

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TMcSquared

I heard somewhere that multiplying a developers time estimate by PI is very accurate most of the time.

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Chris Bertrand

What's PI?

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TMcSquared

3.141519265358979323.....