Disagree. Developers can provide reliable low risk estimates that will most certainly be rejected or truncated by management.
The problem is not estimates, the problem is every manager fantasizing that their Captain Kirk strategy,
"I'll have it fixed in 4 minutes, Captain" "Do it in 2."
> the problem is any manager
If your greater point is that some developers really are poor estimators, I agree, but all of them operate under pressure to err on the optimistic side.
1. Every manager does that
2. Every manager that does that is the problem
Disagree. Developers can provide reliable low risk estimates that will most certainly be rejected or truncated by management.
The problem is not estimates, the problem is every manager fantasizing that their Captain Kirk strategy,
is some form of motivating leadership.