Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? - Quora

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Eric Barker
4:07 PM Apr 24 2013

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<p>The Michael Wolfe answer has 5500 Upvotes. Most Upvoted thing I've ever seen on Quora.</p>

Adam Rifkin
1:43 AM Apr 25 2013