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Don't ask me to "estimate" things. Don't ask me to "spike things". Either something needs to be done for the business to be successful, or it doesn't. If it
by dudul 6y ago
Don't ask me to "estimate" things. Don't ask me to "spike things". Either something needs to be done for the business to be successful, or it doesn't. If it does, we'll just spend the time, and we won't "spike it" we'll just do it. We may iterate on it, we can design it, think about it, but fuck spikes and estimates. Just spend the time to actually do it.
- tra3 6y agoDoesn't seem reasonable to me.. you need to estimate things to plan. How long is this pizza going to take from when you call in to when you can actually eat? How many people do I need to build this house? Etc etc. My problem is with people thinking that estimates are commitments. You just gave me a 30 second elevator pitch on a project you want me to build and I said it's gonna be 3 months? Then you proceeded to scope-creep and delay the project start by 3 months and you're surprised we're not done? Ok then.. I suspect this issue is rooted in human nature aka cognitive biases. I don't stress out about estimates any more. They are just like, my opinion man [0]. [0]: https://youtu.be/pWdd6_ZxX8c https://youtu.be/pWdd6_ZxX8c
- emrah 6y agoWell some managers do treat estimates as promises so that's a problem. And they do that because customers want to know when X is going to be done/fixed. And pizza analogy is inappropriate. Software development is nothing like making pizza.