Minimum Viable Estimation: What’s the least you can get away with?

Knowing how big a job something is before choosing to start it is definitely valuable - it can be used to inform all kinds of decision-making. But agonising over how to work that out and insisting on simple answers to unknowable questions is a waste of time, energy and trust. Let’s talk about how to make things better.

Fans and opponents of #NoEstimates are equally welcome - I think we might all be talking about the same thing…

Transcript

1. Minimum Viable Estimation: What’s the least you can get away with? Neil Vass (@neil_vass)
2. #NoEstimates
3. End of slide show, click to exit
4. #NoEstimates Would you like to know more?
6. #NoEstimates Would you like to know more?
7. Cat Swetel Dan Vacanti Troy Magennis
8. #NoEstimates
9. Steve McConnell
10. #NoEstimates
11. Some fair questions
12. How long is a piece of string?
13. Douglas Hubbard
14. It won’t be different this time
15. Daniel Kahneman
16. What we talk about when we talk about estimates
17. Scaffolding
19. Minimum Viable Estimation: What’s the least you can get away with? Neil Vass (@neil_vass)