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One of my friend works in one of these famous Indian outsourcing companies, one day the client asked her how much time will this change need, she said it can be

by sumedh 6y ago

One of my friend works in one of these famous Indian outsourcing companies, one day the client asked her how much time will this change need, she said it can be done in hour. Her manager who was not in that meeting got to know that she gave a 1 hour estimate and was furious almost threatened to fire her and also told the team not to give any estimates to clients. The manager then had a meeting with the client and then gave a 1 week estimate for that simple change.

Jallal 6y ago
I obviously do not know the context, but as a manager, you have to be extremely cautious with the estimates provided to you by your team. First because human are notoriously bad at estimating the workload, and then because you never know what can happen in the meantime : it can be literally everything : a bug in the frameworks you use, someone who get ill, an hardware or network failure, etc. When you have the luxury to set the deadline, you always choose a safe one, that will guarantee you to be on track or ahead the schedule. As much as you can, never late. And yes, you also have to be careful before communicating to the client an estimate. he may then think that each of his request takes "one hour", and, as he now know "how to estimate", he would make you waste your time negotiating something that he perceive to be easy to do while it's not. Honestly, despite the fact that I do not think highly of Accenture, nothing shocking here regarding the management. Of course the fact that he charged for a full week of work is just a scam.
- chris_wot 6y ago
  I worked at a company that used CapGemini. They were given the task of moving data from one drive to another. Took them a week. When they had finished, they had forgotten/didn’t know that the parent folder needed to make child folders inherit permissions (Windows file server being used). They couldn’t figure out what the cause of the problem was, despite being told. In the end an employee ticked the correct box and propagated permissions. These guys can’t move files from one drive to another. In a week.
aerique 6y ago
I can't even pick my nose in one hour. Or fix a typo in production.
Graffur 6y ago
Only a junior developer would say they can do something in one hour :)

by sumedh 6y ago

Jallal 6y ago

I obviously do not know the context, but as a manager, you have to be extremely cautious with the estimates provided to you by your team. First because human are notoriously bad at estimating the workload, and then because you never know what can happen in the meantime : it can be literally everything : a bug in the frameworks you use, someone who get ill, an hardware or network failure, etc. When you have the luxury to set the deadline, you always choose a safe one, that will guarantee you to be on track or ahead the schedule. As much as you can, never late. And yes, you also have to be careful before communicating to the client an estimate. he may then think that each of his request takes "one hour", and, as he now know "how to estimate", he would make you waste your time negotiating something that he perceive to be easy to do while it's not. Honestly, despite the fact that I do not think highly of Accenture, nothing shocking here regarding the management. Of course the fact that he charged for a full week of work is just a scam.

chris_wot 6y ago
I worked at a company that used CapGemini. They were given the task of moving data from one drive to another. Took them a week. When they had finished, they had forgotten/didn’t know that the parent folder needed to make child folders inherit permissions (Windows file server being used). They couldn’t figure out what the cause of the problem was, despite being told. In the end an employee ticked the correct box and propagated permissions. These guys can’t move files from one drive to another. In a week.

aerique 6y ago

I can't even pick my nose in one hour. Or fix a typo in production.

Graffur 6y ago

Only a junior developer would say they can do something in one hour :)