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I remember being on a team that spent a little over 2 weeks doing detailed project planning and estimating. We said the project would take 8 months. The leader
by berniedurfee 3y ago
I remember being on a team that spent a little over 2 weeks doing detailed project planning and estimating. We said the project would take 8 months.
The leadership team came back and said upon further review, the project would take 3 months.
I was so relieved to hear we could get 8 months of work done in just 3!
That’s why executives get paid the big bucks!
- laurels-marts 3y agoI’ve seen teams do 2 weeks of detailed project planning and estimating where the entire project could have been done in 2 weeks by a good team if they just set their nose to grindstone and did the work. It’s unbelievable how useless some of these planning and estimating sessions are.
- paleotrope 3y agoDealing with that right now. I have multiple PMs and directors involved in requesting another team to literally do five minutes of work because we didn't insist they put it in the current iteration and they put it several iterations away.
- _ea1k 3y agoIn a lot of places that was the real waterfall method, and also how waterfall earned its illustrious reputation.
- berniedurfee 3y agoWaterfail FTW
- genman 3y agoI'm now curious. So for how long did it actually take?
- jrs235 3y agoProbably got cancelled after 2 months after they realized it was going to take 6 more months.
- berniedurfee 3y agoNot sure, my contract ended a year later.