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If you can’t at least say which of two projects will take longer, the architecture must be fucked to hell.

• mlthoughts2018 8y ago
  Usually it is sociological, and has not much to do with good or bad architectures. The more surprising blockers tend to happen when someone on another team can act as a gatekeeper to a resource you need, like permission to make a change, and uses this blocking for some political purpose. It can cause bang-simple engineering tasks to take weeks, during which time you never know how much longer you’ll need to wait, and depending on political capital of the entity blocking you, you may not even be allowed to publicly explain they are blocking you, and you are forced to absorb the negative externalities of their choice to block you.