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by afroisalreadyin 3605 days ago
I read the first chapter of the no estimates book, and have to admit that I found it weak on arguments and poorly written. I think there is real value into doing software estimations if you take them seriously, even using story points, but there must be better ways of using those estimates. One really interesting way of doing this is the Monte Carlo estimate method I linked to in the blog post. Would love to try that sometime, and see how it works out.
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The notion that the business can make decision in the presence of uncertainty is the basis of No Estimates. As a participant in another accelerator our funding sources would find that laughable at best and toss us out the cohort at worst.