#10 | Sunday reads for EMs
My favourite reads of the week to make your Sunday a little more inspiring.
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Your Engineering Estimates Are Setting You Up To Fail
tl;dr: Stop treating estimation as a one-off task - most estimation effort is actually wasted. The key is to use three “Power Questions” to explore what could go wrong, what could go right, and why you’re estimating in the first place. Then, apply the PERT distribution to turn those answers into realistic timelines.