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Depends. There's an intermediary company that makes money by offering to pay invoices earlier in return for a moving discount calculated and updated frequently for eg.
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reminds me of the IARPA forecasting challenge described in SUPERFORECASTING, where each day's prediction counts the same (right?). There is probably a better allocation of these daily points related to what's being predicted... but are any marginal thresholds generalizable?
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This is very applicable to software estimation. People systematically underestimate the opportunity cost of estimation activities themselves. Also, bad estimation assumptions are arguably at least as dangerous as many of the hidden risks that estimates are meant to flesh out.
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