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>>vimes6+(OP)
Once you've been around in this software business for long enough you see the same articles written over and over again... there will always be articles about estimating software, yet there is no solution to this problem.

Anyhow, it doesn't matter. Software devs are the lowest cog, they don't get to extend the delivery date. All the layers above - management, marketing, sales etc need a date to work to to deliver their work, and they generate the $$$. No-one cares if the software is low quality, as long as it is delivered. Dev team can do further updates to bug fix after delivery. The end.

>>altitu+Sh
No one gets to choose the delivery date, other than actual reality. Anything before that is a prediction. The question is how good is your predictive model and do people understand the error margins. In my experience high ups like to promise dates (in general). But it’s a dance: everyone knows it’ll be later because “IT project”

It takes a lot of trust and maturity and skill (from both technical and business side) to have continual value delivery instead of estimates. This is possible but not the common case.