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		mbell on Aug 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software Effort Estimation Considered Harmful You tell them to define a minimal feature set, and impose that it is actually minimal. This feature set you estimate and give a hard deadline on. Then you tell them that you will iterate based on feedback and add features as directed until such a time as they choose to stop paying you. There is no such thing as "done" in software development.

jasonhanley on Aug 17, 2012 [–]

'There is no such thing as "done" in software development.'

Exactly! That's what makes it so different from physical world projects. You can keep adding/changing things forever.

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