typical problems with estimates

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Typical psychologically driven behaviours that arise are:

  • Inflated Estimates: They give estimates that are 2-3 times larger than necessary, typically to compensate for forced multi-tasking, and to have contingency “buffers” for things that inevitably “go wrong.”
  • Sandbagging: Resistance to pass on any gained time to downstream activities, compounded with the avoidance of any additional Work Load.
  • Student’s Syndrome: Cramming and leaving things to be done at the last moment.
  • Parkinson’s Law: Work expands to fill the available time.
  • Gold plating: Tendency to “polish” and “improve” completed work when finished ahead of schedule.
  • Handover Delays: Reluctance or failure to hand over finished work.

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