2024-05-01 22:46 UTC
Okay. I can give some if my answers to the question about estimates. I've never been presented with formal methodologies around estimation. In my early career, it always seemed like more senior people would just come to with numbers based on fuzzy intuition and experience. This never really bothered me. It's just the way things were done.
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@polotek@social.polotek.net 2024-05-01 22:48
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.