DHH: Drive development with budgets not estimates

[sharoonthomas]

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3746-drive-development-with-budgets-not-estimates

[rficcaglia]

I make medical software. Should I heed such advice? Imagine you are the patient...or your spouse, kid, mom, GRR Martin?

Why can't we instead be professionals and scientists and maybe estimate with data and models and rigor? Not SWAGs.

[sharoonthomas → rficcaglia]

Do estimations work for you ? How accurate are they ?