I find that with XP we are pretty acurate. We break the tasks up in to small 
units and quote them with timings.  Then we have a 20% "glue-together" time 
on top of total time of all the units.

The 20% came with experience in our specific setup of 8 programmers.

Robert

On Friday 17 February 2006 10:34, Jeff Mutonho wrote:
> Project managers will always ask for estimates on the time a developer
> thinks he/she is gonna spend coding something.I know experience plays a
> major role in this , but generally speaking ,what techniques do you guys
> use?Any rules of thumb?Lies ,etc :) ?
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