From the PragPub Archives The article, “Estimation is Evil: Overcoming the Estimation Obsession,” by Ron Jeffries appeared in the February 2013 issue of PragPub magazine. PragPub was a monthly magazine by and for software developers that began in 2009 and ended its run in 2020. You can still pick up a copy of Ron’s book, The Nature of Software Development , and you can also learn more about estima