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> People want ‘estimates’ at all costs, tell you to not worry about any accuracy, and then a week later tell your manager you committed to x date.

I like to handle this problem by providing an estimate RANGE.



That doesn’t really matter. In these cases you often have information akin to ‘we want a webshop’, so you estimate something more or less reasonable, then a few weeks later you find out they actually meant ‘we want a duplicate of Amazon’.


Typically when we need something budgetary from a vendor we use the +/- 50% rule. That shouldn't be hard not to screw up.




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