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> One major “secret” to advancing in a technical career is learning how to give accurate estimates

If Google, Microsoft, Apple, Blizzard, etc can't produce accurate estimates despite employing 'the best of the best', wouldn't that imply it's a nearly impossible task? I can see getting order-of-magnitude estimates, but nothing more accurate than that.



Plans are nothing, planning is everything.

You have to try, even if you know it's going to be bad/inaccurate.


That isn't what the author said though.


Yeah, it's what Dwight D. Eisenhower said. The first line of my previous comment was a quote from him.


It seemed like you and the person you replied to were talking past each other. And now we are.




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