| Tip 27 | Get with the Project |
 | [ââWhite Belt] Before you write a line of code, someone will be asking you how long itâll take. |
âAre we there yet?â
On the family road trip, your dad may have quipped that itâs the journey, not the destination, that you should focus on. Thatâs not the case for your project manager.
It turns out thereâs a lot of ways to answer that question. Software projects are notoriously hard to estimate, and the industry moves so fast that a productâs specification rarely stays the same for even a monthâthis is why many teams have given up on writing specs. So, the answer to âAre we there yet?â is often something ...
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