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A reductive approximation: engineers estimate at 50% confidence (on average it will be done on this date), management and leadership hear that at 90% confidence
by Arubis 4y ago
A reductive approximation: engineers estimate at 50% confidence (on average it will be done on this date), management and leadership hear that at 90% confidence (it will be done by this date to near certainty). Making these assumptions explicit up front solves tons of problems.
- warrenm 4y agoThis has been one great thing about moving from "just engineer" to "consultative engineering/architecture/etc" in my career - learning how to speak to the business needs over the technical needs At the end of the day, Ford doesn't care about its IT environment - they care about building and selling cars, trucks, etc The NASDAQ doesn't care about the OSes on their servers, they care that transactions complete properly Learn to speak to the business case, and the tech takes care of itself (more-or-less)