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> I've stopped scoffing at a simple app that I think I can "hack together in a weekend" How do you get your PM to stop planning that way, though?
by commandlinefan 6y ago
> I've stopped scoffing at a simple app that I think I can "hack together in a weekend"
How do you get your PM to stop planning that way, though?
- hedora 6y agoFind a better PM. The competent ones I’ve worked with invariably convince engineers their “weekend project” will take at least 2 months. They start by getting the engineer to spend an afternoon enumerating all the tasks they need to complete to implement and ship it. Then the engineer takes 3 months, when they would have taken 6 without help from the PM. This is because the PM follows up, and helps them be ruthless with the requirements list.