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In the decades I’ve been in deep IT, there have been a few constants in the sea of change. One of those constants is that the simpler solution is generally the better solution. Also, estimating the amount of time any one task will require is a fool’s errand.
We’ve all been in technical meetings where a widget needs to be tweaked, a service needs to be modified, or what have you. Invariably a nontechnical person will state the task can’t be hard to do, and an engineer or developer, eyes growing wide, will counter that it will take several days at least. Many times, another techie, perhaps looking to curry favor, will chime in and say it should only take a few hours to work out. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle.
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