>And trust me, confidently believing in fiction is much much worse for effective planning
Absolutely TRUE - and this becomes a political problem in some organizations, depending on whether you're around people who can handle hearing the truth (whether they just don't want to hear bad news, or whether they don't understand complex webs of interdependencies that can cause time estimates to be wrong).
Absolutely TRUE - and this becomes a political problem in some organizations, depending on whether you're around people who can handle hearing the truth (whether they just don't want to hear bad news, or whether they don't understand complex webs of interdependencies that can cause time estimates to be wrong).