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Originally Posted by Ian Curtis
You missed the best one!
29. (von Tiesenhausen's Law of Program Management) To get an accurate estimate of final program requirements, multiply the initial time estimates by pi, and slide the decimal point on the cost estimates one place to the right.
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Whenever we'd ask for a estimate on the mechanical subsystems, the mechanicals would double their estimate and then tell our project manager, who would double and then tell myself, the software lead, and then I would double it. Still wasn't accurate enough a lot of the time.