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The point is that if you use the word 'just' you're saying that you already know that the change is trivial. Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't. Show respect to
by kybernetikos 13y ago
The point is that if you use the word 'just' you're saying that you already know that the change is trivial. Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't. Show respect to the person who will implement it by letting them say whether its trivial or not.
It's absolutely true that moving a button 3px should be trivial, but it's also true that things are often not as they should be.
- Chris_Newton 13y agoI agree with your fundamental point that making the assumptions about what colleagues will have to do can be dangerous, though I would still challenge your earlier suggestion that apparently simple things “frequently” have huge ramifications. It’s sensible and polite to acknowledge the possibility, but if trivial-seeming changes are getting push back more than occasionally, IME that probably indicates a more serious underlying problem with how the project is being built.