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Re:All late projects are the same (2011) [pdf] by jayd16 on Monday February 04, 2019 @01:57AM (#19074472)
This is why "agile" methodologies caught on. Ignoring how they're used as internal political cudgels now, the most general goal of agile is to constantly adjust scope and estimates.

This way, we can accept that we're all terrible at estimates but we do our best not to paint ourselves into corners because of our terrible terrible estimates.

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Re:All late projects are the same (2011) [pdf] by kgilpin on Monday February 04, 2019 @07:38AM (#19075798)
He doesn’t think estimation is the problem. He says that the projects are started late and that developers are handed a deadline by the business and then accused of being late when they can’t meet that deadline.
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Re:All late projects are the same (2011) [pdf] by jayd16 on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:38AM (#19077705)
That's still an estimation problem by management. In agile, all sides are supposed to understand that scope and timeline are constantly adjusted.
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