“I’d like you to to give me a time estimate, including the time taken to define the task and it’s exact scope.”
“You want me to do that before telling me what you want me to do or letting me think about what that’ll entail?”
“Look, I just need you to pull an arbitrary number out of your ass and give it to me in writing, so I can hang you out to dry when you inevitably get it wrong.”
The irony being that really fully understanding what all a task will require and getting exact specificaion can often make a task take longer.
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This is definitely the thing I hate the most. Let me just work on it till it works.
I had a PM get really unhappy when they asked how confident I was with an estimate.
Apparently +/-100% upsets them.
“What did you sell them?”
“I basically just said yes if they asked if it was in the system. So how long?”
My last employer used to ask this, i gave a estimate (best case to worst case) and he always picked the lower number. Learned something from this: never give a range, give the worst case.
I give them reasonable case and tell them it’s if everything goes right.
After we exceed the estimate if they ask I tell them that not everything went right. I like my current management, they let us estimate in very low resolution, and expect that nothing will be delivered on time
Rule of thumb.
Double the number, bump the units.
40 hours? Nah, 400 kilohours
I’m literally on this call right now!
How many story points?
See title. I got 195.
