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Also known as lowering your expectations.

• mandelbrotwurst 6y ago
  That’s one way of looking at it. It could also be described as being realistic - there are always “unknown unknowns” and all else equal, no matter how motivated and capable your team, estimates that consider this will be more accurate than those that do not.
• hinkley 6y ago
  Or not painting yourself into a corner.
• contravariant 6y ago
  Mostly everyone elses, but yeah.