#NoEstimates

Estimation is wasteful, but many teams still abide by it. Let’s debunk this myth.

Luís Soares
CodeX
Published in
9 min readMar 14, 2022

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The #NoEstimates discussion and my experience of having left estimates long ago led me to write this article. I argue that estimates are mostly a waste of resources. Finally, I’ll present the alternative (which ends up rendering sprints unneeded). Note that this advice follows The “Just Sharing” Principle.

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Luís Soares
CodeX
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I write about automated testing, Lean, TDD, CI/CD, trunk-based dev., user-centric dev, DDD, coding good practices,