How to estimate go-live dates for a new project?

I read an interesting thread on Reddit the other day about estimating go-live dates for a new project. This isn’t easy as we’ve no previous metrics to use, so what do we do?

IMHO the responder in green nailed it… reduce the scope and get an MVP into production as soon as possible…


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