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> Developers aren't actually > special snowflakes But generally, in a technical team, they're the experts on the technical stuff... > and they sure as
by peteretep 10y ago
> Developers aren't actually
> special snowflakes
But generally, in a technical team, they're the experts on the technical stuff...
> and they sure as hell
> shouldn't be hiding away
> work they'd like to do in
> what are nominally feature
> cards
They should be mentally adding the postscript "in a way that leaves the project in a better state than I found it" to each feature, and estimating on that basis.
That's their job.
> then get grief later when
> the points didn't directly
> map to time
If this happens at your workplace, either fix it or leave, much as you would if the promised health insurance your workplace offered turned out to be a spirit healer.
- jon-wood 10y agoI did fix it. I replaced the error prone practice of using units other than time for estimation with the far more understandable process of estimating in hours, days, weeks, and months. That comes with an understood caveat that as the units get bigger so does the margin of error, and if people want more accurate estimates they need to allow time to break the task down.