[loup-vaillant]

> You must never turn estimates into a promise,

Whoever asked you for that estimate will do that for you…

> always remind people they are estimates.

…even if you remind them. I mean, the reasonable ones won't, but many people aren't that reasonable.

I've been in an interview last week where they told me the teams were strongly committed to the features they planned to do each sprint. Which I interpreted to mean that their estimates are promises.

> Want to give fast estimates? Here’s how:

My, this looks like it could actually work. I'm going to try it right away.

[davidjnelson]

It’s funny because even with capital a Agile / Scrum, in 2011 the term commitment got changed to forecast [1]. But then many companies who are dogmatic about Agile still use estimates as commitments anyway. That makes technical debt really hard to avoid... One solution is to create technical debt tickets in the backlog so people become aware of it.

1. https://www.scrum.org/resources/commitment-vs-forecast