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by dbc_dvon 674 days ago
The quote sucks and I completely disagree with the author.

It puts the whole responsibility on the engineer to predict how long a thing will take. There are much better approaches though. We can focus on allowing the team to create lots of small tickets (can be done in a few hours or 1-2 days), massively improving our prediction estimates. The author seems to suggest we should be able to predict the future no matter the task or team communication/organization.

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I think you have misread quote here. Emphasis is on taking responsibility here IMHO. Your proposal to “divide and conquer” is still estimation process.