Estimates are always portrayed as 'business reality' vs. 'software engineering preferences' - in my experience using estimates many times actually impedes busin

Estimates are always portrayed as 'business reality' vs. 'software engineering preferences' - in my experience using estimates many times actually impedes businesses from measuring other metrics that are just as valuable or (imo) significantly more valuable than estimates. Those are a) 'full' lead-times for features, the coding bit is only a small bit in the whole process and estimating just this bit doesn't really tell the business much about how much effort, time and money it really takes to release a feature and b) value-created for the user by a new feature. Those are harder to do, but usually worth it