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Dima and Slava discuss the complexities of estimation in business contexts and the challenges of striking the balance between ambition and realism.
- Estimation, forecasting, and projecting
- Desired level of confidence for the estimate makes a difference
- Short-term vs long-term estimation
- 50/50 goals
- Benchmarking is helpful when you do something novel
- Working backwards can help in planning projects
- Is your thing really a special snowflake?
- Illusion of precision, or precision bias
- Realistic estimated vs ambitious goals
Estimation and benchmarking was also discussed in Biweeklycast #36 How Big Things Get Done.
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