Do you inflate your estimated project completion dates?

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Jamey McElveen picture Jamey McElveen · Feb 11, 2009 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

If so why? How much?

I tend to inflate mine a little because I can be overly optimistic.

Answer

chaos picture chaos · Feb 11, 2009

Hofstadter's Law: Any computing project will take twice as long as you think it will — even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

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