One practical aspects of prediction is individuals predicting what they can complete in one workday. Walking away from partial work that’s at a good stopping point is always better than walking away from a mess you’ll have to look at again the next day. For multi-day efforts this is an indispensable skill that I believe all successful developers eventually grok.
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Estimates only ever tells you one thing: How well you did in estimating the task.
Project management tends to not like this truth...
True; but also they can become self fulfilling prophecies when not unrealistic.
Yeah, true... why do it faster if there is no need...? Makes it counter-productive in the end. So, decide: is it a good tool? ;-)
One practical aspects of prediction is individuals predicting what they can complete in one workday. Walking away from partial work that’s at a good stopping point is always better than walking away from a mess you’ll have to look at again the next day. For multi-day efforts this is an indispensable skill that I believe all successful developers eventually grok.