Ask HN: What are the 5 most important techniques you use at job?

Re:Ask HN: What are the 5 most important techniques you use ... by ddorian43 on Sunday February 11, 2018 @04:31PM (#16354942)

1. Underpromise and overdeliver.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the 5 most important techniques you use ... by zhte415 on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:47AM (#16357846)

Correctly promise and correctly deliver.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the 5 most important techniques you use ... by ddorian43 on Monday February 12, 2018 @06:03AM (#16357898)

What you said is Correctly predict

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Re:Ask HN: What are the 5 most important techniques you use ... by riezebos on Monday February 12, 2018 @10:40AM (#16359280)

Which is probably way more expensive than almost correctly predicting, and making up for the inaccuracy by underpromising and overdelivering :)

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Re:Ask HN: What are the 5 most important techniques you use ... by quickthrower2 on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:35PM (#16363005)

Time constraint.

Features constraint.

Quality constraint.

Pick two.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the 5 most important techniques you use ... by quickthrower2 on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @04:55PM (#16371176)

Just to be fair. There is a way to have all 3. You need to do enough analysis to be completely sure of the time it will take to deliver the features to the quality required. To achieve such an estimate you need to analyse all of the details. The only way I know to do this, is to complete all of the features, and the answer is simply how much time you have spent, with remaining time zero.

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