I came across an old note that detailed how two members of a team I was once on was showing the rest of the team how to estimate.

Me, being a fan of #no-estimates, or continuous forecasting if we are asked to predict the future, was really going to enjoy this.

On May 11, they were able to T-shirt their way into confidently saying that the project would ship on August 20.

Of course they didn’t hit that. Last I heard it was at least a year late.

This still cracks me up.

Confidently declaring a date is not confidence.

It’s false-confidence. Don’t believe it. Don’t ask for this. All it does is lead to distrust.

Somewhere online (probably reddit) like 15 years ago I came across the phrase

“tutant meenage neetle teetles”

and I’ve kept it in my notebook ever since because it cracks me up.