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If you asked how long a job will take, don't provide an estimate - do this instead.

Alex Pushkarev on September 09, 2022

It is important to understand that even if we use the same word we could mean/understand different things. When people ask "How long job will take...
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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

Real issue here!

What I usually do is that I say something like that.

"I don't have enough information to provide a reliable guesstimate. What is this feature worth to you?


Worth spending like height hours


if you agree with it, I can spend two hours (time boxing) investigating the topics in detail. Best case scenario I might be done in two hours if we are lucky. Worst case scenario we spent two hours knowing it's not worth doing.

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Alex Pushkarev

interesting approach, thanks for sharing!