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About Estimates

Estimates are a nasty subject, Andreas doesn't know how to handle it.

Fortunately, Lars has one weird trick, which doctors hate.

When you have plenty of control, estimates can be useful.

Not useful: unexplained deadlines.

Finally: when things get stuck. (Lars is usually available to blame.)

(In an alternate timeline, Andreas' tells us everything his relatives taught him about quark cake.)

Links

• Deadlines whooshing past
• The XKCD about determining if you're in a national park, and check if your photo is of a bird
• Basecamp
• Shape up
• Elm
• Zenos' paradoxes - you can't run past a tortoise
• The travelling salesman problem
• NP-complete problems
• CRUD
• Lean manufacturing

Quotes

• Their due dates, their deadlines
• I have this one weird trick, that doctors hate
• A constraint for the work
• The magnitude of the task
• Some real dumb things, and some very decent ideas
• Skate curve
• The smallest unit is always a day
• Not agile enough
• Slightly confused and maybe a little bit sad
• If you think that's a map (, I think you're using it wrong)
• Assorted concerns
• You can't run past a tortoise
• You can always split a cake in two
• Quark cake
• Accelerate a cake
• A fixed estimate on the travelling salesman problem
• Usually available to blame