I suspect devs are actually decent at estimating the *median* time to complete a task. Planning is hard because they suck at the *average*.He then went on to explain Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model.
Very very roughly, it's the (almost predictable) outliers that will mess up your plan - easy stuff stays more or less easy, but the hard stuff gulps up all the time.
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