Comments by "Tiago D\x27Agostini" (@tiagodagostini) on "Why Software Estimations Are Always Wrong" video.

Estimations are only valid if you already did something very very similar. That said, from a owner of a software company POV now, they are needed, because money allocation depends on that. So we really need to know a low and a high bar for an expected release.
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@TrackedHiker I Know MORE about development than any of my employees. I had your mentality yet as ALL business owners I understood that it cannot be that way. Simple as that. There is a reason why all developers that start their own companies change their opinions... because it is not an opinion, it is a fact. I bet you would be angry if your boss did not accept to say how much you will earn in your month until after the month ended. Yet we also do not know how much money will enter the company before hand.. but we HAVE TO predict! We can lose a client, we can fail to get new ones, lots of things can happen. The business feature is the one that pays the bills, be sure if ONE facet of companies that will not change is that. The business is the goal, development is just a tool. You do not change the objective just to make the tool easier.
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Well be ready to get a lecture how company management, resource allocation marketing fund allocation works in return. I have done both things and I will say, software development is not harder than navigating business and government regulations that emand beforehand estimation of cash flow..
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@madmanX1314 I have 20 years on software development and took me only 3 years managing a company to understand why the pressure comes for certain things. The problem usually arises in middle, then middle management do not understand either side and create procedures to pretend to achieve what he THINKS his boss asked. Will give you an example, here in the fiscal mode MY company works( vary on each country and each modality) we need to PREDICT the expenditure on the semester in paychecks used for new products and maintenance (Because the taxation is different).. so we need to have a reasonable prediction if something is deliverable before a clear cut day of the semester or not. If we make it wrong, we pay more taxes... believe, managing a company is NOWHERE simpler than writing code (on both cases due to difficulties created by other humans).
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