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#NoEstimates to address misuse of estimates only treats the symptoms

Scrum helps you cure from the misuse of estimates altogether

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Willem-Jan Ageling
Aug 25, 2019
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Scrum helps you cure from the misuse of estimates altogether

There are basically three reasons to be interested in #NoEstimates:

  1. When no-one needs to know where the money is being spent on, why would you estimate?

  2. You are becoming so predictable that it doesn’t make sense to use story points as estimates anymore.

  3. Estimates are misused.

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