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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.” —Chinese proverb

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Changing practices is one thing; changing minds is quite another

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If you tie iterations to the ends of months, one out of every three iterations will coincide with the end of a fiscal quarter.

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No plan survives contact with the enemy." —Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke

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A key tenet of agile estimating and planning is that we estimate size but derive duration.

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if we establish something as the “best possible way, the motivation for kaizen [continuous incremental improvement] will be gone

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The cone of uncertainty shows that during the feasibility phase of a project a schedule estimate is typically as far off as 60% to 160%. That is, a project expected to take 20 weeks could take anywhere from 12 to 32 weeks. After the requirements are written, the estimate might still b . . . Read more

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Planning is everything. Plans are nothing." —Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke

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