Success doesn't always breed more success, sometimes it causes more harm later on and a small bit of skepticism is always welcome
This has been baking in the back of my head for quite a while now and it happened to me and the team that I am part of, at work, in the last couple of months. I think it is worth analyzing what actually happened and worth keeping the lessons learned in the back of your head all the time, especially during estimations. Now on with the story. Initially when I joined the company I currently work at, we started slowly doing work and getting to know the application with its business logic. We had a lot of doubts in the beginning. So during the estimation meetings at the beginning of a sprint, we were constantly unsure of the tasks that we had to estimate. At first glance this seems like something bad but it actually had a silver linning. That doubt kept us analyzing the tasks that we had to do more in depth. We also looked into existing code more often which helped us too. And quite often we would discover hidden issues that at first glance were not so obvious, issues like hidden depend