Comments on: Estimation Considered Harmful

Naresh. Hello old friend. I dug this one up. As many of you who posted, I've been on both sides. I now manage a large software development group at a massive healthcare firm. Here is the problem ...

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-2/#comment-15936

convince you, my buddy Naresh wrote a better post (with some very interesting comments) here.  What do you think, are estimates a necessary evil? Share and

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-2/#comment-15151

Hi Naresh, As engineers we have to be aware of the business world needs as well, because after all, it is what drives engineering. I keep telling the engineers in my team to get MBAs even if the...

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-1/#comment-13697

Hi Naresh, As engineers we have to be aware of the business world needs as well, because after all, it is what drives engineering. I keep telling the engineers in my team to get MBAs even if the...

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-1/#comment-15626

Thanks Luis, for your insightful comments.  You are right, I'm a code monkey and I don't understand anything about business. But I don't agree with you that estimating is the only way to run a b...

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-1/#comment-13691

Thanks Luis, for your insightful comments.  You are right, I'm a code monkey and I don't understand anything about business. But I don't agree with you that estimating is the only way to run a b...

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-1/#comment-15625

The crux of this article is in the following phrase: 'One day it struck me that may be this whole practice is flawed and I’m not the only one who finds it difficult to estimate." Your research ...

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-1/#comment-13690

The crux of this article is in the following phrase: 'One day it struck me that may be this whole practice is flawed and I’m not the only one who finds it difficult to estimate." Your research ...

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-1/#comment-15624

Oh my, interesting discussion but unfortunately not real world.  A myriad of different types of estimates are needed (in fact, even more so when using SCRUM) but the magic is in how they are dev...

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-1/#comment-13679

Oh my, interesting discussion but unfortunately not real world.  A myriad of different types of estimates are needed (in fact, even more so when using SCRUM) but the magic is in how they are dev...

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-1/#comment-15623

I think that the paper http://www.poppendieck.com/righteous.htm could help in this discussion. It is an analysis of the Lean way to contract, more like a parternership than a project.

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-1/#comment-13651

I think that the paper http://www.poppendieck.com/righteous.htm could help in this discussion. It is an analysis of the Lean way to contract, more like a parternership than a project.

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-1/#comment-15622

I have to agree with Lisa on this one. The use of estimation in Scrum should result in a conversation that identifies the "sophistication" of the delivered product. In this sense, raw estimation ...

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-1/#comment-13646

I have to agree with Lisa on this one. The use of estimation in Scrum should result in a conversation that identifies the "sophistication" of the delivered product. In this sense, raw estimation ...

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-1/#comment-15621

Estimation is necessary for ROI analysis. Everyone hates it and management is known to abuse it, but we write software to meet needs that can often be met in other ways. How can management reason...

https://blog.xnsio.com/2008/12/25/estimation-considered-harmful/comment-page-1/#comment-13645