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- Manager: How long would it take to migrate from A to let's say B? - Me: What do we want to accomplish from the migration? I'm assuming cost reduction? - Ma
by Ensorceled 4y ago
- Manager: How long would it take to migrate from A to let's say B?
- Me: What do we want to accomplish from the migration? I'm assuming cost reduction?
- Manager: Yeah, the guys at B are much cheaper.
- Me: Ok, give me until EOD Friday to do some investigation.
- Manager: EOD Thursday would be better, don't need a full roadmap, just enough for an ROI. I'll flip over the CEO's spreadsheet that she's using for the calculation.
- Me: This means Feature X is dropping from this sprint.
- Manager: Yep.
Dear Mes: Grow up and participate in the process rather than starting off with snark.
- switch007 4y agoHah if only managers were that grown up too. I’ve tried those conversations. Firstly, that Friday deadline likely would have been fine, it was just a power play. Secondly, when the manager said “yep” to dropping the feature, you’ll still be expected to make progress. (Of course most of the time they try to make you do double the work. A quick “yep” wouldn’t happen IRL)
- Ensorceled 4y agoGet a new manager. Seriously.
- switch007 4y agoIt hasn’t been just one manager. I guessed you’d make that assumption though ;)
- marcosdumay 4y agoHow many times did you take a task you have no idea of the timeframe, do some short research without completing it and was able to make a correct estimate? If that happened even once, I would be interested to hear about it.
- Ensorceled 4y agoLiterally all the time. Just had exactly this scenario with a technology switch. I spent an hour reviewing their api. We had a meeting with their sales engineer, I asked them a bunch of questions. Estimated 10-12 days to finish phase one integration, was working in single sprint. Larger projects get more upfront investigation and larger error ranges.