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I appreciate the planning fallacy. I usually do this implicitly but I just changed an expected timeline on a JIRA epic from 80 hours to 160 days after reading t
by JonasJSchreiber 9y ago
I appreciate the planning fallacy. I usually do this implicitly but I just changed an expected timeline on a JIRA epic from 80 hours to 160 days after reading this.
- t3chn0SchO0lbus 9y ago"I can look through all of my emails before the end of the day"
- pm 9y ago80 hours to 160 days? Or do you mean 80 hours to 160 hours?
- finaliteration 9y agoThe article said, “upgrade the units and double the estimate.” So 20 hours -> 40 days -> 80 weeks -> 160 months
- xyzzy_plugh 9y agoThere's a reason I encourage calling a collection of epics a "fantasy".
- Afforess 9y agoWatch out - there is a reverse bias, Parkinson's law, that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. This is why Elon Musk sets absurd deadlines he rarely can meet, to resist the expansion of make-work and administrative bloat which consumes longer-timed tasks.
- kaybe 9y agoWork behaves like a gas: It fills all the available space (time) and the smaller the space the more pressure you get.