Team Involvement in Estimation

A team-contributed timeline is harder for external stakeholders to arbitrarily compress because it has a visible human source and a shared rationale. The people who will actually perform the work carry the most accurate understanding of it…

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A team-contributed timeline is harder for external stakeholders to arbitrarily compress because it has a visible human source and a shared rationale. The people who will actually perform the work carry the most accurate understanding of its complexity, edge cases, and hidden pitfalls. Estimates should never be produced by a single person, especially not the most senior or the most removed from day-to-day execution.