Re:What's a senior engineer's job?
by mlthoughts2018 on Sunday October 07, 2018 @02:00PM
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I find the opposite. Take the hand wavy eatimate at face value and just move on, update it as you do the task and discover the reasons the estimate was bad.
The other failure mode, where the team spends time discussing every ticket, wasting N people’s time when only 1 or 2 people have the expertise on that topic to debate the estimate, is way worse. It wastes more time, makes people act petty about who is doing more fictitious Fibonacci units of work, bikeshed over meaningless things like if a ticket is a 3 or a 5, and can make work scoping way more antagonistic than it needs to be.
The other failure mode, where the team spends time discussing every ticket, wasting N people’s time when only 1 or 2 people have the expertise on that topic to debate the estimate, is way worse. It wastes more time, makes people act petty about who is doing more fictitious Fibonacci units of work, bikeshed over meaningless things like if a ticket is a 3 or a 5, and can make work scoping way more antagonistic than it needs to be.