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		<title>It Always Takes Longer Than You Expect</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hofstadter’s law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ray Myers, Jr., PMP Douglas Hofstadter’s law of programming simply states that, “It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s law.”  While Hofstadter was writing about programming when he introduced his adage, it may also apply to the estimates we do as project managers. If your experience has been anything like mine, you’ve probably missed one or more of your best estimates sometime in your career.  For me, it hasn’t seemed to matter whether it was a budget, a schedule or the number of resources needed to complete a project, I’ve missed them all at one time or another.  In fact, my wife even doubles my cost estimates when we do projects around the house.  Imagine that! So, how do you estimate your projects?  Do you take your best estimate, double it then add some more?  Do you triple your guesstimate or do you have some other magic formula that you use to fine tune your approximations?  Or do you just call it a best guess and move on? I still miss an occasional estimate, but over time I’ve learned some estimating techniques that have improved the accuracy of my estimates.  It’s not [...]]]></description>
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