[thirdtruck]

Seconded. This is just the kind of framing I use when trying to explain why, at our workplace, our "Agile" (or even our "Scrum") process seems so ineffective.

My favorite metaphor: asking for hard numbers from an Agile team makes as much sense as asking Columbus exactly how long it would take to reach India. Software development often resembles cartography work even more so than architecture work.