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I am and always will be skeptical about software estimation. I am even more skeptical about the promises of software evaluation methods. But what I am the mos

• commandlinefan 5y ago
  > avoiding software estimation altogether because they share the two skepticisms above Well, to put your mind at ease, I don't avoid software estimation because I share your skepticisms (although I do), I avoid it because I've observed that it's a complete waste of time. Nobody, at least never in my 30-year career, has ever asked for an honest estimate of how long it would take to produce a software product. What they have asked for is somebody to agree that the time that they have budgeted will be enough for the (vague, still being defined and still to be defined even beyond the timeline) software project and take the "blame" when it inevitably doesn't.
  • tupac_speedrap 5y ago
    Yep, every story pointing session is basically just think of a Fibonacci number and round it up. Finishing early makes your scrum master leave you alone but finishing late makes you and your team look bad and "unagile" and then you get even less done next sprint because you are stuck in meetings. The scrum master always wins because nobody is ever doing enough Agile.
  • xcambar 5y ago
    I agree. > somebody to agree that the time that they have budgeted will be enough for the [...] software project For me, that's still software estimation.