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		ashleymoran on April 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Can't Developers Estimate Time? Re "environmental contributions", that was part of the discussion, but thinking about it - estimating total effort and elapsed calendar time are very different!

oceanician on April 8, 2011 [–]

elapsed calendar time and total effort are often the same in a customer's mind. Time is actually money.

ashleymoran on April 8, 2011 | [–]

This is why Kanban and its focus on lead time is more valuable than Scrum and its focus on velocity, IMO.

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