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		isoskeles on July 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dear Agile, I’m Tired of Pretending (2018) > Please let us know when cancer will be cured. An absurd comparison given most software engineering tasks have been done before, they're simply difficult to estimate for some given team without expertise in doing some particular task.

mplanchard on July 1, 2019 [–]

TBF, GP said they were doing research, so it’s entirely possible that they’re working in a space with little to no prior art.

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