Back by popular demand, a PragPub article by Ron Jeffries on why software estimation is a <i>necessary</i> evil: https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/estimation-the-best-we-can-do-90e930b55ce0
Are you Ron Jeffries? (People here is more friendly if the author is in the thread answering questions.) Are you the editor of the blog?<p>About the article: How does it compare with the method proposed by Joel Spolsky in <a href="https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-scheduling/" rel="nofollow">https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...</a> ?