Build

We began this month with a Build episode where we exposed all the aftershocks of using current product management methodologies to estimate user stories. Then in last week’s episode, we dove into Hiten Shah’s new EAT approach which boils down to doing hourly estimates.   Don’t worry if you thought Hiten was crazy, you aren’t alone!   We received a lot of questions, concerns, and objections, so in today’s episode we’re going to dive into the top 3 we heard again and again:   Objection #1: My team is still healing from our previous approach.   “My team adopted agile five years ago and experienced a number of problems that you talked about in the first episode. So, six months ago we took the plunge and decided on no estimates and, of course you can imagine, we're still recovering from it. The wounds are raw. So, how am I going to get my team to try something new especially since this is going to be another investment in terms of time?" — Product Manager from Palo Alto   Objection #2: This won’t for our custome