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Originally Posted by RustyBrooks
The notion that you can determine which features will be ready by a given date is pure madness, and I am surprised that people still feel this way in 2018. It's the kind of thinking that led to books such as "The Mythical Man Month", a book that was written before I was born, and, spoiler alert, I am ****ing old.
its insane. my old team just let us put whatever down for todo and tasks. I would put this:
dev work
dev test
unit tests
build and elevate
sync with business
my new team wants me to break down every single task I do and estimate a time. its like, how the hell am I supposed to know all of the dev work that needs to be done before I have even started on it. and how the eff and I supposed to know how long it is gonna take.
oh but we need to know how long the project is gonna last. and we need time estimates for our "burn down" chart. pure idiocy.
listen, do you want me to try to do the work and fix the bug or create the feature or do you want me to spend hours estimating the fix?
its very frustrating bc my old team and manager were really cool about just getting it done and doing it in our own way. new team leads are just so unreal stereotypical corporate micromanagers that its like a culture shock. as cliche as it sounds, they are just like the guy in season 1 of halt and catch fire who came in to run the coders. well, not quite that bad, but thats what they are striving for.
/rant