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Podcast: Biweekly
Episode:

Estimation

Category: Business
Duration: 00:31:25
Publish Date: 2025-12-03 01:22:52
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Dima and Slava discuss the complexities of estimation in business contexts and the challenges of striking the balance between ambition and realism.

  • Estimation, forecasting, and projecting
  • Desired level of confidence for the estimate makes a difference
  • Short-term vs long-term estimation
  • 50/50 goals
  • Benchmarking is helpful when you do something novel
  • Working backwards can help in planning projects
  • Is your thing really a special snowflake?
  • Illusion of precision, or precision bias
  • Realistic estimated vs ambitious goals

Estimation and benchmarking was also discussed in Biweeklycast #36 How Big Things Get Done.

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