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		morelisp on July 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Finishing what you start makes teams more producti... Picking the 99% or top decile or whatever is not padding, it's the actual job of estimating. Anyone who talks about "padding" rather than uncertainty doesn't understand estimating yet.

rightbyte on July 25, 2022 [–]

Ye I think I might have misunderstood you.

I've got Scrum withdrawal syndrome I can't think straight when seeing the word "estimate".

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