(comic) So what's the ETA
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Now, onto to today’s comic:
Just give them a wildly inflated estimate.
When I worked as a programmer, I'd usually follow Scotty's Algorithm: estimate how long it would take if everything went well then multiply by 3. Of course, often programming does *not* go well, but if I completed the task in 1/3 the estimate, my boss would be impressed :-)
I gave my PM a WAG of 3 weeks. She didn’t accept it because I was too quick to respond. It took 3 weeks. LOL.