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by coreload 197 days ago
All estimates should be accompanied by a "cone of uncertainty". Teams should evolve their ability to describe a cone of uncertainty as well as their ability to estimate. Estimating "accurately" is only possible when understanding the accuracy is elevated to the same importance as the estimate itself.

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