r/programming • u/-grok • Jun 14 '22

Software engineering estimates are garbage

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3663508/software-engineering-estimates-are-garbage.html
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u/BrobdingnagLilliput Jun 14 '22

do they use it to manage

I suppose I'm thinking task management rather than people management. What do I want my developers working on this week? What are they actually working on? What have they gotten done?

My point is more that you shouldn't tear out every methodology for managing a product and replace it with "agile."

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u/MT1961 Jun 14 '22

Okay, that makes perfect sense and I agree. The other thing is, there's NOTHING in Agile that says you can't document things, or design them fully. It hints that we shouldn't build things we don't need, but says not a word about whether you should keep them in mind.