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Bad time estimates hurt anything. But you are not familiar enough with construction, law, medicine, or cooking if you think they don't have the same pressures
by throwaway5752 8y ago
Bad time estimates hurt anything.
But you are not familiar enough with construction, law, medicine, or cooking if you think they don't have the same pressures (if not worse).
I would say that most of my experience is managers asking for estimates, and developers giving either estimates that are too optimistic or ones that weren't given enough thought.
- sidlls 8y agoSeems like a chicken and egg problem to me. I ask my developers to give me estimates and then my manager asks me why they're going to take so long (I trust their estimates, my manager is worried about meeting deliverables). There's no way to take that feedback back to the team without it adversely impacting the quality of their estimates going forward. I shield them as best as I can by intercepting requests before it gets to a member of my team, but stuff happens.