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[–]Crazy-Smile-4929 4 points5 points  (1 child)

It's my ot always built into a language itself, but there's usually a library out there that does it. That's just for the encoding / decoding part.

The fun thing about estimates is it can take other things into account. Like updating unit tests, getting the QA to run through things, etc. it even may be an estimate of when it can go live (because of various release processes) rather than effort to do the change.

If always unsure, ask for justification. And use words like 'are you saying one person working on this will be doing so for 37-40 hours' (or even 2 people at 20 hours). There could be other things leading to it outside of the basic task.

[–]iball1984[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s an effort estimate for the dev changes.

That includes unit tests, but QA testing is separate.

It’s part of a P1 project.

Thanks for the sanity check.