> they aren't given the opportunity to do so I see this as well - in a lot of ways, it's an (accidental?) outcome of JIRA-driven project management. The proje

> they aren't given the opportunity to do so I see this as well - in a lot of ways, it's an (accidental?) outcome of JIRA-driven project management. The project manager's job is to squeeze as much productivity out of the developers as possible, so they do so by having you account for every hour you plan to spend and what you're going to spend it on. Then they start looking at what can be cut, and the stuff that's not "mission critical" gets cut. What's frustrating is that this ends up being a Pyrrhic victory.