dannyh

Spaced repetition is why drip marketing works. Definitely the way to go when building memory.

I've been using 80% estimates at Twitch for most of this year. 80% estimates are estimates you expect to beat 80% of the time. We're integrating them into this years annual planning progress, so that all our dates and cost estimates mean the same thing.

I believe they’ll immediately make our estimates 50% better at setting expectations. A standard estimate could be an optimistic goal (30%), likely (50%), conservative (80%), or sandbagged (95%).

And it’s fast. It only takes me 2 minutes to get an engineer to turn a normal estimate into an 80% estimate for the first time (whereas it takes me 30 minutes to help pm’s make their first predictions).

Dealing with the parent problem is just as important as what to say once you have their go ahead.