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Re:Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of pr... by pvorb on Saturday December 25, 2021 @03:35AM (#29681512)
The place where I work, we discuss the estimates until we agree on a shared estimate. If there are no outliers, we just take the average.
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Re:Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of pr... by thesimon on Saturday December 25, 2021 @07:32AM (#29682761)
We usually start by discussing the outliers on both sides.

This makes it easy to uncover simpler solutions (if everyone had a higher estimate) or pitfalls (if everyone had a lower estimate).

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Re:Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of pr... by pvorb on Saturday December 25, 2021 @12:56PM (#29685258)
Yes, that's exactly what I meant to describe.
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