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“During planning, especially short-term planning, it’s tempting to set up “stretch goals” or to “encourage” the team to do “just one more feature.” Please do not do this. It’s devastatingly destructive. The reason is that the team will in fact try. Eager to please, they’ll unconsciously hurry. They’ll leave out just a few tests. They’ll leave the code not quite as clean as they might have, just to squeeze in one more feature.”
― Ron Jeffries, The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece

“software people are terrible at estimating, because humans are terrible at estimating. Let’s not just try harder. Let’s find a better way.”
― Ron Jeffries, The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece