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by blackbear_ 1961 days ago
Yes. Again, properly estimating X1, X2, T and C is so difficult in most cases that this strategy is not really applicable (notable example: technical debt).
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Calibrated estimates with huge uncertainty ranges are still useless, even if calibrated.

"One month of refactoring this component can save us between 500k and 50M in the next five years with 90% probability" - this is not very useful for the decision maker, yet it is quite difficult for a domain expert to narrow the range.

It is possible, and in some cases practical, to spend more resources to obtain more information which narrows the range. That's what Applied Information Economics methodology preaches.

Page 5 of author's intro booklet has a flowchart which conveys the idea: http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/...