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Back to Agile's basics (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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What You Should Know About Estimates

Amitai: No one knows how long it takes to do soft work. You can't ask programmers to come up with an est and then expect him to hold that estimate because no one knows. And so you have to accept the iron cross, except that you're going to be managing this by cutting something. But if you get the bad news early enough, you can manage. Amit says he's had a lot of wrong estimates in his life but there are still things we can do to improve our estimates.

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