Estimate

In preparing for [projects] I have always found that [estimates] are useless, but [estimating] is indispensable.

—General Dwight D. Eisenhower

It’s better to be roughly right than precisely wrong

—Maynard Keynes

We beat ourselves up in post-implementation reviews and tell ourselves to just try become better in estimating; However…

Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

—Albert Einstein

• → metrics drive behavior
• → relative estimation
• http://www.djaa.com/noestimates-beef-and-agiles-trojan-horse
• #noestimates
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_method
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/software-development-effort-estimation
• http://softwaredevelopmenttoday.blogspot.co.nz/2012/01/story-points-considered-harmful-or-why.html
• http://www.infoq.com/resource/minibooks/emag-agile-estimation/en/pdf/Agile-Project-Estimation-and-Planning-eMag.pdf

See plastic plan.