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Re:Hard deadlines are not user-first by slumdev on Thursday January 02, 2020 @01:50PM (#21938388)
> One thing that leads to those faulty promises, IME, is that we often conflate estimates with commitments.

I want to meet the person who went around convincing PMs and scrum masters to abandon the word "estimate" in favor of "commitment".

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Re:Hard deadlines are not user-first by UK-Al05 on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:11PM (#21949823)
I believe commitment has now been removed from the scrum guide.
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