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The first 80% of a software project takes 80% of the time. The last 20% of a software project takes 80% of the time. And if you prove this false, you're a bette

• peteradio 3y ago
  > And if you prove this false, you're a better engineer than me! Probably cheating somehow!
• adolph 3y ago
  That’s only 60% over budget. What takes up the last 40%? Agile project management scrum standup virtual meetings?
  • hashtag-til 3y ago
    40% is taken by managers forwarding e-mails among themselves and generating unnecessary meetings. Or, how Gemini would say... 40% is taken by A DIVERSE SET of managers forwarding e-mails among themselves and generating unnecessary meetings.
  • twothamendment 3y ago
    As a low paid, part-time intern I finished a project with another low paid, part-time intern. We were supposed to have some FT people on with us, but that never happened so we just kept working. We only had one weekly meeting and it was a challenging project. When it was done we had a lunch/meeting to celebrate and discuss how it went with the project people. They commented that this was the first one that was both under budget and late and wondered how that could be. I volunteered that it was because "we are interns and don't get paid much and it was late because we spent a month waiting for the DBA to correct a mistake he made - we could have been done early." There were shocked faces. Lunch was good and there were not many more questions.