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Re:Forecast, don't guesstimate your software projects by bdefore on Saturday June 13, 2020 @09:03AM (#23509073)
The book you refer advocates a concept of 'apetite' rather than estimation: "Instead of asking how much time it will take to do some work, we ask: How much time do we want to spend?"
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Re:Forecast, don't guesstimate your software projects by dpenguin on Saturday June 13, 2020 @01:34PM (#23511084)
Yeah. The reason I mentioned it is to highlight that the business often needs to know what something will roughly cost and cannot just headfirst five into it. Estimation is a form of communication that addresses this.
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