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You are very good at this. Without even knowing what the code is about you are able to discern that it would take me about a day to get to sufficient familiarit
by delichon 2y ago
You are very good at this. Without even knowing what the code is about you are able to discern that it would take me about a day to get to sufficient familiarity. Meanwhile I, who have been working on the project for twelve years and wrote most of it, still don't know. Are you available as a mentor?
- DandyDev 2y agoSo you worked for twelve years on that code base and you still don’t know how to estimate a bug fix? There seem to be other problems then. And you are right, I don’t know anything about that code base, certainly not enough to know if estimates should be easy or not. But the fact that they aren’t is a sign of problems either way. And I stand by my point that your boss’ question is reasonable, and the team should do some introspection to learn why such a fair question cannot be easily answered
- delichon 2y agoI have seen bugs, in this project and several others, that range from actually "actually a feature" to both serious and unsolvable. Most of them are somewhere in the middle. But before knowing anything about the code or the bug, I can't tell where this task will land on that distribution. If you coerce an estimate out of me all I can do is guess the median value, which you can fill in without my help, while I go and work on the bug. Asking me for a number before I know anything about it is a waste of both of our time.