# Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model · Erik Bernhardsson

<https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

This is like reading a mathematical breakdown of what I've seen over decades of building software. It also highlights why Agile processes focus on spiking the biggest unknowns before tackling other tasks. Those individual tasks can take all of the time.

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## Appears in

- [WT102: Weekly Thing #102 / Apr 20, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/102/), Notable Links 📌

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