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“What? Two days?”, “But our previous developer could do that in a couple of hours! No way it will take you that long.” Answer: Well get the previous developer

• bunderbunder 10y ago
  If I had $1 for every time I saw one teammate get roped into spending a week building some goofy little low value feature because another teammate - never a guy with any skin in that particular game game - said, "I could have that done in two hours" during a meeting. . .
  • dpark 10y ago
    You have bad managers if they let that crap fly. The appropriate response to that kind of thing is "then you should do it, because you clearly have the domain expertise to do the work efficiently".
• tortilla 10y ago
  During negotiations with a large corporation for customizations to our SaaS product, a business analyst asked: "Why is this so expensive? Can't you just copy and paste some of the code from other parts of the system?" I couldn't even respond right away, I had to censor myself before saying anything. Background: They wanted pre-populated values/logic very specific to their workflow. It wasn't just an easy cut and paste because the software would behave differently for them.