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What Turns Estimates into Deadlines
- andreasgonewild 9y agoAgreed, I briefly entertained the idea of adding deadlines to the distributed PM-software (https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis) I'm writing but decided to nudge evolution in the right direction instead.
- alexandercrohde 9y agoTl; dr: The very act of sharing an estimate verbally creates a some weird social deadline. Author proposes deadlines should not exist.
- louithethrid 9y agoReality abides.
- glangdale 9y agoIt may be a sign of my bad head cold, but my first thought on seeing this headline was "'What' is a terrible name for a piece of software"! I approve of the general idea proposed, but it's hell on other people. Sometimes the advantage of a deadline is that it forces you to choose what will and won't make it into version 1.0 (or whatever). I speak as a serial "when it's done" offender who is always finding 'one more cool optimization that just happens to need a big rewrite of a whole chunk of the code' - exasperating for those around me.