One FTE – impressions of a corporate life

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estimating top down or bottom up

estimating top down or bottom up

original publish date: 5th March, 2011

decades on …

Commentary coming soon.

transcript

FTE #1: Young exec, why do we prefer our estimates to be top-down rather than bottom-up?

FTE #3: Because people can extrapolate the cost of previous failures better than they can predict ones they're about to make.

FTE #2: You have come sofar, mason

Caption: Nothing predicts tomorrow like yesterday.