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One thing that baffles me in corporate IT is not just the snake pace of development but rather the fact that nobody seems to be bothered by the snake pace. Ther
by dandare 4y ago
One thing that baffles me in corporate IT is not just the snake pace of development but rather the fact that nobody seems to be bothered by the snake pace. There is zero effort to measure or speed things up. The only important thing is to be nice to everyone, any mention of productivity is considered hostile behaviour.
(For reference, I am talking about cases where a team of 5 devs takes 2-3 months to deliver a feature that would take a single independent developer maybe 2-3 days.)
- Traubenfuchs 4y agoA slow pace makes it possible to slack off more in peace. If you plan to take a week to do feature A and you finish it in a day, you have 4 free days. If you plan for 1 day and it takes 2 because it was harder than expected, plans get messed up, you need to work faster on the next feature and look bad. I always encourage fellow engineers to vastly overestimate tickets. That‘s also important to set a comfortable pace with the business people who have zero clue how hard our work really is and prevent them from making us work hard.
- a1369209993 4y ago> the business people who have zero clue how hard our work really is Note that this goes both ways; the'll both wildly overestimate and wildly underestimate how hard various tasks are, often in the same conversation. See eg https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425.
- rightbyte 4y ago> snake pace You mean snail or like moving in an "S"?