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  • estimating top down or bottom up

    estimating top down or bottom up

    original publish date: 5th March, 2011

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    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.