The pie of project planning

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Published: Monday, 02 September 2019 17:07

If you've ever done any project planning, you may know that Douglas Hofstadter, in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach, formulated an important law, named Hofstadter's law:

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

In practice, this recursive law is very hard to apply. I use a non-recursive variant myself that also takes into account project planning:

A carefully planned development project takes π times longer than you think. If you don't plan carefully, it will be π²

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