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This feels naive "Imposing estimates on others is a recipe for disaster". Estimates and deadlines are useful. It aligns everyone on what's required to be succes
by tschellenbach 4y ago
This feels naive "Imposing estimates on others is a recipe for disaster". Estimates and deadlines are useful. It aligns everyone on what's required to be successful. They enable you to collaborate with other teams. If you can't estimate if something will take 3 months or 12 that's a problem.
- atmavatar 4y agoWhen estimates come from the person/team doing the work, I might agree with you. The crux of "imposing estimates" is that said estimate is coming from a third party that has nothing to do with the work. Most often, it's someone who's trying to land a contract by promising a new feature by some deadline they just pulled out of thin air, knowing full well that actually delivering it is going to be someone else's problem. They got their commission, and no one's going to chew out the sales guy who landed a deal just because a few programmers whine about having to put in a few extra (unpaid if salary) hours.