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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never give firm estimates. It's done when it's done. Feel free to check in.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Customers kinda want to know in advance if a task will take 2 hours or 200 hours in advance

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"adding a button to the front page? Yeah, it will definitively take less than 6 months to make. No promises though."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The button must identity if there's pigeon in the picture

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Spitball. Keep'em posted. Be honest.

But nothing firm.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

As someone who has been doing this for two decades, I disagree. Give a firm estimate, and always deliver before you said you would, just make sure you pad the fuck out of that estimate so that it would be virtually impossible not to accomplish it.