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In my opinion, if someone is asking you for estimates on 1-2 hour tasks, that person should kindly remove him/herself from the software development industry.
by blt 12y ago
In my opinion, if someone is asking you for estimates on 1-2 hour tasks, that person should kindly remove him/herself from the software development industry.
- gknoy 12y agoYou could simply say, "I don't give estimates in under 3-hour increments, because there are inevitably other fire-extinguishing and support activities that interrupt even the most trivial tasks." Sometimes I get interrupted with "Alice needs X added to Y right away", or "Bob needs reassurance that this is working as intended in the original ticket" -- no problem. Other times, one might lose productivity to things like, "Java update broke our GWT compilation toolchain completely". It helps if your manager knows that such interruptions happen, too. I also am a fan of overbudgeting and then revising later once I understand the problem better.