2024-05-01 22:48 UTC
The reason it was mostly okay is that my early career was as a contractor. I worked for firms that hired me out hourly. Estimates were just estimates. If it took longer, we would explain why and renegotiate the hours. There were conflicts sometimes. We missed something huge on our side, the client was in a bind and couldn't afford to move dates, etc. But none of that fell on me directly as a team member.
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@polotek@social.polotek.net 2024-05-01 22:51
When I became a Senior Engineer™, it's because they wanted me to lead projects. But I became the person who had to answer the question "how long do you think this will take?" At this point, I had observed a lot of what more senior people talked about and thought about when they did estimates. I paid attention when they asked me questions about my part of the work. So I started to model those things I had seen.