# Michael Wolfe's answer to Engineering Management: Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?

<https://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-software-development-task-estimations-regularly-off-by-a-factor-of-2-3/answer/Michael-Wolfe>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Let's take a hike on the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles to visit our friends in Newport Beach. I'll whip out my map and draw our route down the coast:

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