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EP 38 - Why estimating and planning is so hard
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EP 38 - Why estimating and planning is so hard

Topics and Takeaways

  • Why planning is so hard

  • We humans are just terrible at estimating

  • How does system and organizational complexity add to planning issues

  • Do we build in terrible planning in our processes

  • Do we pretty much guarantee bad planning with the way we do “agile” and portfolio planning?

  • If we are so bad at estimating… why do we do it?

  • We are trying to use AI for everything these days… can we use it to help with planning?

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Think Big Code Small
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