How do developers estimate software projects?

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Answered by Ijaz Khan, a senior full-stack developer building SaaS, AI products and scalable backends.

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By decomposing the work into features, comparing against similar past projects and adding buffer for the unknowns integration always brings. Estimates are probability ranges, not promises. A developer who refuses to estimate has no experience; one who never revises has no honesty.

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