Hell No, for the most part in my limited experience, they're not estimates, we should really stop calling them that. They're at best guesses at worse they're co

Hell No, for the most part in my limited experience, they're not estimates, we should really stop calling them that. They're at best guesses at worse they're coupled with excessive padding and extreme waste. I don't have any beef with it being hard. I have a major beef with it setting invalid expectations, having no basis in calculated fact, and overall being useless/time consuming to the people having to meet these deadlines and participate in said "agile" rituals. I'm all about capacity. If we can understand what a team is capable of or the capacity of said team, we don't have to guess how much work they agree or don't agree to do or force them to use a crystal ball at the weekly séance.