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And since everybody knows that this is how management deals with estimates, there is no incentive to improve upon their own.
by karparov 2y ago
And since everybody knows that this is how management deals with estimates, there is no incentive to improve upon their own.
- lazide 2y agoThe big thing is usually what do various folks mean by ‘improve’? ‘As small as possible’? (Aka optimistic) ‘As accurate as possible’? (Aka as low variance) ‘As conservative as possible’? (Aka least likely to ever be exceeded) ‘As cheap to estimate as possible’? (Aka lowest overhead) Most people have no idea which strategy they are even doing.
- sumanthvepa 2y agoTrue. But I'm not measuring their performance relative to their estimates. I'm measuring performance relative to their peers and their previous performance. So giving me a padded estimate won't make much of a difference. Obviously, judgements are deeply subjective, since no two programming tasks are ever identical or even alike, but if you code a lot like, me you have a pretty good idea of what constitutes good.