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Whenever I'm presented with a problem that I don't have enough information to meaningfully estimate, a "helpful" manager suggests "breaking it down into subtasks". I usually end up breaking it down into tasks something like:

1) Figure out what's going on 2) Fix it



It's ok to break it down iteratively, so after figuring it out you can get back to the list of subtasks and update them




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