Don't do an estimate, build a prototype. Don't do an estimate, build a prototype. Don't do an estimate... seriously... build a prototype. And then throw it o

Don't do an estimate, build a prototype. Don't do an estimate, build a prototype. Don't do an estimate... seriously... build a prototype. And then throw it out. And THEN do an estimate. It will probably be pretty accurate. Not always easy to do this in a tech company but as an eng director I was able to get it done and it changed a seriously broken process based on multi-week scoping and estimation futility.