Summary Motley: Wideband Delphi is overkill for smaller tasks. I would never invite a bunch of people to an estimation session to estimate a 20 hour task. Maven: Planning Poker is a lighter variant of Wideband Delphi that provides similar benefits...

Summary Motley: I admit it - Wideband Delphi works! It helped us generate fairly accurate estimates for longer-term planning and the documentation of our assumptions kept everyone on the same page and provided rationale for our numbers. Maven: Um, what Motley said. ______________________________...

Summary Motley: Estimation is always inaccurate. Individual gut-feel estimation is the only way to go. Maven: Wideband Delphi is a valuable estimation technique that can immediately improve your accuracy. ______________________________ [Context: Motley is about to estimate the amount...