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Submitted by Bryan Pflug on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 09:51

Estimation and planning are related topics, but estimation is not planning, and planning is not estimation. Estimation should be treated as an unbiased, analytical process; planning should be treated as a biased, goal-seeking process. With estimation, it's hazardous to want the estimate to come out to any particular answer. The goal is accuracy; the goal is not to seek a particular result. But the goal of planning is to seek a particular result. We deliberately (and appropriately) bias our plans to achieve specific outdcomes. We plan specific means to reach a specific end.

— Steve McConnell in Software Estimation

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