PM_Hut comments on Planning Fallacy - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 September 2007 07:06AM

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Comment author: PM_Hut 17 January 2009 04:07:47PM 0 points [-]

I did publish an article about overconfidence as a strong bias in estimation (here's the link: forecasting and estimating biases in projects ).

Personally, I've seen it, even when the person (especially when the person is a programmer) thinks s/he's pessimistic in estimating time, estimates are always missed. A recent example I've had was a task that the programmer promised he was going to finish it first in 2 days, I told him to be overly pessimistic, he said 2 weeks. The task was scheduled for 4. Now, after 5 weeks, the programmer says he's 2 days away from finishing.