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A 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 pl
by Traubenfuchs 4y ago
A 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.