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“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” It’s not the estimate that is valuable. It’s the estimating and seeing how/why the estimate changes over tim
by foxbarrington 1y ago
“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”
It’s not the estimate that is valuable. It’s the estimating and seeing how/why the estimate changes over time that is valuable.
- cassianoleal 1y agoWhy?
- n4r9 1y agoYeah, I don't think "seeing how estimates change over time" is very valuable. The reason that "planning is everything" is that it makes a problem tractable.
- foxbarrington 1y agoEstimating: similar to planning, thinking through the whole problem and surfacing early anything that seems like not a big deal on the surface, but actually is. Estimate changes over time: surfaces underlying issues e.g. too many urgent bugs/fires/triage, product changing priority constantly, etc...
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]