The Problem with High-Level Estimates

Let’s face it. Our industry has had some challenges when it comes to setting expectations around estimates on software projects.

It’s not that our estimates are necessarily wrong (though they almost always are). It’s more that people have looked to estimates for something they can never give—an accurate prediction of the future.

It’s like somewhere along the way, people lost sight of the fact that

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