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It's realism, not cynicism. I've absolutely been in situations like that where the sensible estimate is 5X what management is angling for and I know it's the ca
by eschneider 3y ago
It's realism, not cynicism. I've absolutely been in situations like that where the sensible estimate is 5X what management is angling for and I know it's the case because we've done that exact thing (In this case, new hardware bring up) many times and with the inevitable problems, it always takes the high number. :/
- john_the_writer 3y agoI worked at a place where everything had to be gold plated. Some devs had an idea for a json driven form. It was super simple. Less than a week of dev time. Management got it and an architect got involved. The project was taken from the original devs. The new team spent 2 months building a DSL, that didn't support mobile (so didn't meet the requirements). In the end it was canned. The original 3 man dev team (Rails/JS/IOS) did a bit of skunk works, and built the original idea in 2 days. We had a good head of tech at the time so we deployed it and just kept quiet when we estimated new forms.