Building brick walls is easy to estimate not because it is physical labor but be...

jeltz 73 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: When did estimates turn into deadlines?

Building brick walls is easy to estimate not because it is physical labor but because the company has done it many times before. Ask a construction company to estimate a unique one-off job and they will most likely fail. And that is despite them getting a lot of resources for investigating and planning which software engineers almost never get.

jappgar 73 days ago [–]

Yes exactly this. Perhaps when I said "skill issue" I should have said "experience" instead as another poster suggested.