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Ask HN: How do you do estimates in 2021?

For context, I am a manager at a medium sized enterprise software company, I worked as an engineer for 10+ years and took over managing the team. We have 80+ engineers in the entire org. broken down into smaller teams of 5-10. My team specifically has about 15 engineers broken down into teams of 3-5. We have a very challenging roadmap and often we end up delivering 20-30% of what's planned for...

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Re:Making 20% Time Work on Saturday January 30, 2016 @12:52AM (#11000724)
Hey man, I cannot understate this, iTerm2 is the best part of my dev environment. I cannot thank you enough for this.
Re:Show HN: WishBin – Superpowered Wishlists for Amazon on Friday March 13, 2015 @02:59PM (#9199194)
Neat! But I ran into a few issues. 1) Facebook login does not work, I used Twitter 2) The first time I clicked the Wish bookmarklet on an Amazon product, it just froze, had to do a it a multiple times That said, I can see it using regularly, definitely better than placing items in 'Save for Later' list on Amazon Edit - I am currently a camelcamelcamel user, I love the price tracking on that, do you have any plans on adding that feature
Re:MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues on Friday February 20, 2015 @02:42PM (#9082478)
Well...looks like I missed the fine details, my model is not covered. wth
Re:MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues on Friday February 20, 2015 @02:35PM (#9082423)
You should. I have the late 2013 model that I got in Jan'14 and I ran into the random restarts, freeze ups. This happened last week and I was out of warranty, they made me pay for the repair and I just picked it up yesterday. This is good news for me but I think regardless, this issue does show up sometime during the lifetime of the product. I would recommend getting it checked out.
I think it's perfect to my current situation. Also I had the same problem Jeremy1026 had, the requirement did not make it back to the profile page
Re:Dragdis – Drag and drop anything anywhere on Friday March 21, 2014 @04:11PM (#7444602)
I would recommend a "report bug/suggest" feature. Because when I dragged a Flickr image to the folder all I got was a header text on a white background (I think the picture has some restrictions for sharing...). It would be insightful to get these details from your end users. PS: I like the intro tutorial. PPS: I hated that I have to give permissions to post publicly to Facebook, or else the sign up process does not go through
Re:Why was this secret? on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @07:40PM (#6892017)
You got some good ideas in there. I love your Yelp idea!