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Discussion on: Why developers are SO sh*t at estimating!

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Suzanne Aitchison

I think we also often fail to take into account "coordination overhead" - e.g. when my task depends partially on understanding or agreeing an approach taken by someone else working on another task.. or liaison back and forth with a client or designer. Sometimes these chats and slack convos end up taking a decent chunk of time and I think we're pretty bad at factoring it in!

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Luke Garrigan

Completely, that's something that didn't even cross my mind! Thank you Suzanne.