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I have noticed this article during the "Parkinson's law of triviality"[1] meeting (within phase where technical guys are typically silent) and almost started laughing when someone asked about "over the thumb effort estimates" (that are always becoming carved into rock deadlines).

It really made my day :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality



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