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Sunday, 7 October 2007

Treat estimates as solution budget

Posted by Simon Baker
Tags: estimation

Jeff Patton gives us some good advice about how we view our estimates:

Treat estimates as a budget for some possible solution , not as a bid for one specific solution .

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