Excellent post by Dan North on Estimation
2009 July 3
http://dannorth.net/2009/07/the-perils-of-estimation
At a governance and funding level the business could care less about story points. They don’t actually care about stories except that we shove them in their faces with our release plans. They care about solving a problem. They came to us and asked us a) how much will it cost to solve the problem, and b) how confident are we about that number?
