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		Trasmatta 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Estimates are difficult for developers and product... > As a project manager, it sounds like you're making excuses. Just give me a number, trust your gut! If we're just making up numbers, why don't you just make it up yourself and save the developers the trouble?

vegetablepotpie 17 days ago [–]

Ah! But I want you to own it. If you say it first... you own it. And I do not have to get you to agree to it.

Trasmatta 17 days ago | [–]

This is usually how I get tricked into setting deadlines. I get asked for a "rough estimate", then it magically becomes a deadline.

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