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by freshhawk
2546 days ago
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> You must never turn estimates into a promise, always remind people they are estimates. The person giving the estimate isn't the one who does this. Other people turn them into promises, because that's what they were actually asking for when they asked for "an estimate". Giving some kind of uselessly vague estimate isn't particularly useful from an engineering perspective and everyone else has been trained by scrum the last decade to treat them as promises. So don't do the thing that you know will have a bad effect. |
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Why is that your problem? If someone tried to hold me to such an estimate, I would simply say "I never promised this, in fact I explicitly didn't promise this. I'm sorry X lied to your face about this." Don't own other people's failures.