Whether you are a junior, senior, project manager, or a top-level manager with 20 years of experience, software project time estimation never becomes easy. No one no matter how experienced or genius…

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The Startup

No one no matter how experienced or genius they are can claim to know for sure the exact time a software project would take. Over-optimism, Dunning-Kruger effect, pure uncertainty, or just math? Hesham Meneisi offers a statistical approach to explaining bad deadlines in engineering projects.

Why Engineers Cannot Estimate Time

Over-optimism, Dunning-Kruger effect, pure uncertainty, or just math?