The quote sucks and I completely disagree with the author. It puts the whole responsibility on the engineer to predict how long a thing will take. There are mu

The quote sucks and I completely disagree with the author. It puts the whole responsibility on the engineer to predict how long a thing will take. There are much better approaches though. We can focus on allowing the team to create lots of small tickets (can be done in a few hours or 1-2 days), massively improving our prediction estimates. The author seems to suggest we should be able to predict the future no matter the task or team communication/organization.