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{{quote|It’s better to be roughly right than precisely wrong|Maynard Keynes}}
{{quote|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…
We keep on estimating and planning according to those estimates, expecting to meet deadlines and firing the {{p|wise fool}}s that question the practice, and report the actual numbers that are not accepted by management. However…


{{quote|Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.|Albert Einstein}}
{{quote|Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.|Albert Einstein}}

Revision as of 16:58, 7 September 2014

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 keep on estimating and planning according to those estimates, expecting to meet deadlines and firing the wise fools that question the practice, and report the actual numbers that are not accepted by management. However…

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

See plastic plan.