Fantastic article. The diatribe against estimation reminds me of this old article from 1996: https://web.archive.org/web/20140604112011/http://www.thomse...

> It is our belief that over the 30 plus years of commercial computing has developed a series of sophisticated political games that have become a replacement for estimation as a formal process.

Unrelated: can we not do this thing with the whole left side of the screen being one static image? It's really distracting.