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What do you find sucks about estimating?
Last week I did my first bid in ages.
I had taken some time off to build the software, so it was good to be back at doing actual estimating.
It was an electrical project but the scope was unbelievably confusing.
It instantly reminds me what I hate most about estimating.
Spending hours going through the drawings, trying to make sense of the scope of works and put it all together.
It feels like when bidding, you spend 90% of your time trying to work out what the client actually wants you to price.
If you were going to spend $5m+ on a contract, surely you should spend a few hours trying to clearly articulate what you want them to price? But clients never seem to do it properly....
What do you hate most about estimating?
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What do you find sucks about estimating?
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