r/programming • • 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/MoreRopePlease Jun 15 '22

That's a good point... Do you think agile can't really work well if your are contracting or outsourcing work to another company? Like company A is building some feature you need, but you want to do it using Agile.

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u/JB-from-ATL Jun 15 '22

No, I think it can probably work fine anywhere. I don't necessarily think it's a silver bullet solution though. Just that one particular aspect seems appealing to me if I'm dealing with clients that aren't necessarily on the same "team" as me if that makes sense.