Estimates: A Productive Argument, Part II
Troubleshooting Agile
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The Key Word There You Said Prediction
I think that's fantastic. I just don't see why you need an estimate so you could have the prediction for example we will have something really valuable to show every week every week the conversion rate will go up. And there's a great example from the scientific world if you know anything about the notion of p hacking and in other ways kind of fooling yourself into thinking you were testing one hypothesis which is what you actually kind of proved rather than the one you actually had at the beginning. You get to the end of the quarter and you say oh my god you know February was a total write off the vendors couldn't get anything done and we were on the phone to them instead of writing code
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