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		irrational on Aug 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Agile projects have become waterfall projects with... They dispute it because they assume that developers are padding their estimates. You know, it will probably take 2 weeks, so double it and then double it again.

ahtihn on Aug 18, 2022 [–]

If developers consistently miss deadlines and the business consistently pushes back on estimates, maybe the original estimates weren't padded?

This should be fairly easy to communicate to the business people.

CRConrad on Aug 18, 2022 | [–]

Yeah, should be.

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