What’s wrong with estimates?
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Nothing… Apart from pretty much everything with the way we use them…▻http://dilbert.com/strip/2009-12-07If you are one of the people who actually enjoy spending their time giving estimates for how long a piece of software will take to write, you might as well stop reading this post. The last thing I ask of you is to leave me a comment below, so we can get to know each other. I’ve never met one of your kind…If, on the other hand, you are one of the people who has spent long nights working on deadlines, overcommitted on work you couldn’t deliver, or been held accountable for estimates gone wrong for reasons not entirely within your control, (and we’ve all been there) then I would invite you to read on.First, let’s go back, for a second, to look at WHY we are being asked to provide estimates.Some (...)