#NoEstimates?? No way!!!

Lately in the software development community, the topic of estimates has garnered a lot of attention among developers and business leaders with the #NoEstimates hashtag serving as the lightning rod of the discussion. Join me for a background on where this topic emerged from and what it means for your team and business.

Briefly, the topic of #NoEstimates is an exploration for alternatives to making business decisions guided by estimates. Over the decades of developing software, the community has learned that estimating can be a costly and unreliable asset to invest in. Furthermore, the last decade of agile and lean processes has taught us much about what is most valuable for software development. In the spirit of continual improvement, we will consider a development world without estimates to look for another viable business model.

Can #NoEstimates work for your team and business? Come with an open mind and enter the conversation in hopes of discovering new paths to unlocking your core business value.

About Joe Barnes

Joe Barnes is currently a Senior Software Architect at Mentor Graphics where he leads development of cloud-based web solutions such as PartQuest.com. He has spent most of the last decade developing applications on the JVM, with Scala taking focus in recent projects. As an eager life-long learner himself, Joe is passionate about helping others learn and improve the craft through mentoring, blogging, lecturing, and contributing to open source.

Joe can be found blogging at prose::and::conz and on Twitter as @joescii. He also operates as joescii on GitHub where he is a Lift committer and general open-source Scala slinger.

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