Better than a wild guess

I’m currently reading Doublas Hubbard’s How To Measure Anything and it is driving home a point I’ve observed anecdotally throughout my career; when people don’t know something exactly, they often throw away a ton of things that they do know. You can see this in project estimation, where engineers often resist providing any estimate since “it’s hard to tell before we actually build it”. You can see it in product planning, where teams I’ve worked with struggle to provide clear usage or business ...

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