[throwaway98797]

some things can be estimated, others not so much

often folks don’t know if what is being estimated is actually knowable.

building something new pre product market fit is a crapshoot until it’s not.

[steveBK123]

yes this is one of the agile issues

we try to tightly manage estimates & timelines on small iterative tasks, breaking up any larger work items into smaller and smaller stories, in beautiful hierarchies of tickets..

the only innovative work happens out of sprint / nights & weekends as unapproved stuff that would have been nickel&dimed into 27 stories across 10 sprints if it went through the agile process

in a Greenfield project these sorts of estimates driven iterative work methods are innovation killers