Stop estimating or?

I was listening to this Swedish podcast where the episode (episode 8) was titled "stop estimating" and since I hate estimates I started listening with high expectations. Naturally the title was chosen to be provocative but I was surprised that the message was actually to stop estimating.

Yet another estimation rant

Lately I've been discussing estimation a lot with both colleagues and friends so I guess it is time to go at it again. As I've mentioned several times before; I'm not a believer in estimates. The process of estimating is good in order to understand and break down complex problems but the estimate itself as limited (if any) value in my opinion.

Estimating projects

Several years ago I told a story about a project that proved that estimation was a waste of time once the work was split up in small enough chunks. Not necessarily equal size of chunks but manageable size chunks. But sometimes you need to do estimations because somebody wants to know the cost of some project or large feature.