Hi Carlton, > You both took a guess at how long a task you hadn't done would > take, and you came up with different guesses. How does > dishonesty enter into it?
I think that what Carlton interpreted as dishonest was all of the rounding upward. The folks rounded up each of the individual subtask estimates before adding them together, then rounded that total upward (from 8 days to 10) to arrive at the task estimate. That could be dishonesty. It could also be risk management, and wanting to produce an estimate that they had high confidence they could meet. Perhaps the original subtask estimates were made with the assumption that things would go reasonably well. Maybe rounding each of those upward accounts for possible snags. And maybe rounding the total upward accounts for coordination and integration issues. Dale -- Dale Emery, Consultant Collaborative Leadership for Software People Web: http://www.dhemery.com Weblog: http://www.dhemery.com/cwd Truth is always subversive. --Anne Lamott To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
