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> Can you make a step plan for some deliverable? No? Then, sorry, it's not that planning is not possible, it is that you are simply not experienced enough. Per
by lostdog 3y ago
> Can you make a step plan for some deliverable? No? Then, sorry, it's not that planning is not possible, it is that you are simply not experienced enough.
Perhaps you work in a simple domain? This would be infeasible at my current job, and that's including the best-in-the-industry people with 20 years experience.
- wellpast 3y agoWhat’s your domain? Are you working on a mission critical system? Are you trying to solve an algorithmic problem that is novel enough to warrant a publication after you solve it? If not, I doubt estimating is innately infeasible. If your best-in-industry people can’t do it it’s because they probably haven’t valued it enough in their career to develop the particular skill set.
- Zanfa 3y agoI have some experience with healthcare software and the core of it is pretty simple. The 2 biggest sources of unknowns however are quirks of the existing system and edge cases in human processes. Neither can be accurately estimated for because complex systems are never documented in enough detail and even humans who have been using them for decades overlook and misremember things. I’m sure this is the case in any complex enough business system as well.