“Fundamentally, it all goes back to what you said: You simply move forward every day and stop when it's "good enough". All the estimation in the world won't change the path you take. At most it'll decide if you embark on the journey, or not at all.”
I often wish management would worry more about productivity vs estimates. In my company the only thing that comes from project management is the desire for better estimates. Nobody seems to really care about improving processes and staffing.
> I often wish management would worry more about productivity vs estimates.
A thousand times this. I just tried to explain to a manager overseeing developers that the minimum time for the "inner loop" of edit-build-debug is super important to productivity.
He just didn't get it, and was fine with adding multi-minute delays to that loop on his team just to avoid speaking to another manager once.
I often wish management would worry more about productivity vs estimates. In my company the only thing that comes from project management is the desire for better estimates. Nobody seems to really care about improving processes and staffing.