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Too often, teams get hung up trying to create perfect estimates. Here's the truth: trying to estimate perfectly does more harm than good.
The pursuit of perfect estimates create real problems for teams. In this video, Mike Cohn shares one example of a team that he worked with where the manager drove her team to pursue perfect estimates and how that caused the team more harm than good.
I'll also share the problems with treating estimates as guarantees, 5 ways that you can use to help your team and stakeholders treat estimates as estimates, and explain why you don't need perfect estimates to plan accurately.
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00:00 Benefit of Estimates
00:25 Perfect Estimates Caused Problems
01:33 3 Problems with treating Estimates as Guarantees
03:18 5 Practical Solutions
04:44 Stakeholders Understand Estimates
05:02 Estimates Aren't Guarantees
06:43 Give an Accurate Plan
07:34 Get Estimates Right on Average
08:31 Balance Overestimating and Underestimating
09:20 Differentiate Numbers
10:37 Why These Work
10:52 What Works For You?