Running a book

[jack]

Perhaps running a book on more things would encourage accurate assessment?

Boss: How long do you think this'll take?
Coder: Four to two weeks.
Boss: It should only take one week!
Coder: Two-to-one says you're wrong.
Boss: Ummm... maybe you're right.

Coder: Hey, who do you think's going to break the build next?

OK, probably not. But for today, last week's bug:

1-1: My misunderstanding of the spec.
1-1: Verilog bug.
2-1: Compiler bug.
9-1: Something else.

ETA: Outcome, my error, by the compiler doing something acceptible but not what I thought. So that could have arguably paid off three of the above.

You: But those don't add up to 1!
Me: Congratulations, you've discovered economics :)