I've concluded the #NoEstimates advocates have difficulty stating the domain and context in which their exploration is applicable. Without a Domain and a Context in that Domain, it's difficult to have a conversation about the merits of the idea.
Can I apply it to embedded flight control systems? How about emerging databases for nuclear safety and safeguards? Enterprise health insurance processing? How about pipeline right of way document management? Maybe editorial systems in media? Turbine controls, emergency shutdown, fire and gas monitoring? Radar signal processing?
You see the problem, right? General claims like making estimates is a waste of time seem to beg the question - in what domain? Answer comes back Software Development is a domain. Ah, not really. Kinda ends the discussion doesn't it.
