id: 1244,1
title: Estimation informs plan sanity and timelines.
date: 2021-12-21

Estimation informs plan sanity and timelines.

Estimates enable comparison between expectation and theoretical reality which can be used to reformulate the plan where needed. They also help set the order work happens in—tools like WSJF need to measure time allocation to establish a value-to-time ratio. Many approaches exists for making estimates. People are notoriously bad at estimation.