[waynesonfire]

i don't think the claim was that we're no longer estimating. the author was attempting to articulate the process of estimation, where initially one promises the world in N amount of time. As N draws near you reduce feature / scope as needed.. and perhaps when the deadline hits and all you got is a int main(void) { printf("hello world"); return 0; } you figure out what you can make due with where you're at. i like this approach and it resonates with a lot of other great comments in this post.