Showing posts with label #NoEstimates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #NoEstimates. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Why estimations are always wrong?

There are a lot of discussions around estimation in software development, about how to make it simple yet still effective to help the whole team including customer achieve the most. 
Bad estimates are one of the most persistent problems facing managers everywhere. Project and task estimates tend to be off. - always! Estimates are not created by machines. They are made by people with human foibles. Politics, pressure and optimism all come into play when it comes to estimating. Here's where they can go wrong and why.


Saturday, December 26, 2015

#Noestimate techniques


Friday, January 3, 2014

#NoEstimates is not about refusing to estimate


It’s (a hashtag) for those willing to explore alternatives to estimates in software development, exploring various approaches to delivering software without the use of estimates. The commonality between those #NoEstimates approaches seems to be the continuous delivery of small increments of high quality, valuable software. Here are some of them and some thoughts about the rising #NoEstimates debate…