About Estimates

<p><strong>About Estimates</strong></p><p>Estimates are a nasty subject, Andreas doesn't know how to handle it.</p><p>Fortunately, Lars has one weird trick, which doctors hate.</p><p>When you have plenty of control, estimates can be useful.</p><p>Not useful: unexplained deadlines.</p><p>Finally: when things get stuck. (Lars is usually available to blame.)</p><p>(In an alternate timeline, Andreas' tells us everything his relatives taught him about quark cake.)</p><p><strong>Links</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1398-i-love-deadlines-i-love-the-whooshing-noise-they-make">Deadlines whooshing past</a></li> <li><a href="https://xkcd.com/1425/">The XKCD about determining if you're in a national park, and check if your photo is of a bird</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37signals">Basecamp</a></li> <li><a href="https://basecamp.com/shapeup">Shape up</a></li> <li><a href="https://elm-lang.org/">Elm</a></li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes">Zenos' paradoxes</a> - you can't run past a tortoise</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem">The travelling salesman problem</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-hardness">NP-complete problems</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete">CRUD</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing">Lean manufacturing</a></li> </ul><p><strong>Quotes</strong></p><ul> <li>Their due dates, their deadlines</li> <li>I have this one weird trick, that doctors hate</li> <li>A constraint for the work</li> <li>The magnitude of the task</li> <li>Some real dumb things, and some very decent ideas</li> <li>Skate curve</li> <li>The smallest unit is always a day</li> <li>Not agile enough</li> <li>Slightly confused and maybe a little bit sad</li> <li>If you think that's a map (, I think you're using it wrong)</li> <li>Assorted concerns</li> <li>You can't run past a tortoise</li> <li>You can always split a c