No. Estimates have a very real purpose, even beyond communicating to managers and customers (whom you should be honest with anyway). Our estimates are used as

No. Estimates have a very real purpose, even beyond communicating to managers and customers (whom you should be honest with anyway). Our estimates are used as a team to figure out how much work we can commit to in a sprint. They are also used to determine if you are getting better at things. When we start a project, we don't really have a code base, and many tasks are "new". I expect my estimates to be really wrong at first, and then when I'm implementing things that are very similar to what I've done before, I expect those estimates to get better. I can't really measure that if I'm producing bullshit CYA estimates.