2024-05-01 18:53 UTC
@polotek@social.polotek.net
> If you feel that you were never taught the skill in any real sense, what do you feel you're doing at work when you're asked for estimates? Are you making it up? Have you developed your own personal guidelines?
100% made up. Finger in the wind, double it, double it again.
0% confidence in timeframes.
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@depereo@mastodon.social 2024-05-01 18:55
@polotek@social.polotek.net When asked for estimates I make it very clear that I have no idea and any number I provide is noise, devoid of meaning. Once that baseline is established we work on pretending we can estimate how long a piece of string is. Frankly I've never been given a decent spec to work to that could be estimated. If I'm not getting things like 'a scope' or 'committed resources' then GIGO applies.