My boss gives me the opposite. He asked me to give a work estimate on a year-long project, he added +25% buffer for unknowns and submitted it. When the work ended, we were so efficient that we only used 70% of the estimated budget, and this was a problem! Buddy, that's why they're called estimates, we can't make perfect guesses before requirements are gathered.
Nope because in this case our client has to request a budget and justify it, so in this case they asked for too much and have to explain what went wrong
My boss gives me the opposite. He asked me to give a work estimate on a year-long project, he added +25% buffer for unknowns and submitted it. When the work ended, we were so efficient that we only used 70% of the estimated budget, and this was a problem! Buddy, that's why they're called estimates, we can't make perfect guesses before requirements are gathered.
This is basically how we got the agile manifesto
My work is so behind the times that this would literally explode their collective brains
Isn't being under-budget usually considered a positive?
Nope because in this case our client has to request a budget and justify it, so in this case they asked for too much and have to explain what went wrong