https://rodschmidt.com/tags/no-estimates/Recent content in No Estimates on Rod SchmidtHugoen-usWed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 -0600https://rodschmidt.com/posts/ai-wont-make-your-dev-team-more-productive/Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 -0600https://rodschmidt.com/posts/ai-wont-make-your-dev-team-more-productive/<p>There’s no doubt that coding agents can make an individual developer more productive, at least in the initial stage of actually creating the code. However, I’ve got bad news for all the software development organizations out there. AI isn’t going to make you more productive. To do that, you need to improve your process.</p> <p>Why is that? Let me explain.</p> <p>I’m a proponent of the #NoEstimates movement. One of the central premises is that developer speed does not determine when you’ll be done. Your organization’s process does. Instead of relying on estimates you should look at the historical data and then use forecasting to determine when a set of features (i.e. a release), will be done. For more information see the <a href="https://oikosofyseries.com/">No Estimates book</a>.</p>