# How Many Hours for Multithreading the Server?

DevFeed: [How Many Hours for Multithreading the Server?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-many-hours-for-multithreading-the-server-36441.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-many-hours-for-multithreading/>)

Published: 2014-09-02T18:25:58Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/servers.md>)

Tags: [business](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business.md>), [multithreading](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multithreading.md>), [project-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/project-management.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [software-developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-developer.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that software developers often cannot reliably estimate the hours required for individual project steps, especially when the work is new. It distinguishes detailed task estimates from whole-project commitments and discusses how padded estimates can produce misleading schedules.

## Source excerpt

How many hours for multithreading the server? Or: dealing with overly detailed project planning Many developers, me included, dread that moment. Someone sits down with you and wants to know how many "hours" each step of the project will take. And of course the thing is, if you are doing something that has been done many times before, you might be able to provide a detailed estimate. People that build houses work like this, but they still often get it wrong.