> Nobody can work with engineers who are unwilling to commit to a schedule Inability to state a time estimate is not the same as unwillingness to commit to a s

> Nobody can work with engineers who are unwilling to commit to a schedule Inability to state a time estimate is not the same as unwillingness to commit to a schedule. You sometimes do pioneering work which you really have no clue how long can take. Estimating just writing code or doing something repetitive is easier than estimating research + prototyping/engineering.