I’ve been programming for about 30 years now - since long before “agile” and “sprints”. The mentality of those in charge has never changed: if you were smart, y

I’ve been programming for about 30 years now - since long before “agile” and “sprints”. The mentality of those in charge has never changed: if you were smart, you’d be able to state immediately, with 100% accuracy, how long it will take to program something. You got it wrong, so you’re stupid. This mentality ate at me for a long time - in fact, I was terrified because I felt so incompetent yet I wasn’t qualified to do anything else. One day I realized that nobody I worked with could “estimate” accurately either - and I had become the person most other people came to when they had a problem they couldn’t solve. That gave me a lot of peace.