Re:JIRA is an antipattern
by tigershark on Sunday December 09, 2018 @04:25PM
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If it takes three weeks to import an excel sheet either you change your system or your engineers.
tertium non datur.
All the most profitable companies I've ever worked for, which also have had the smartest engineers I've worked with, would take longer than three weeks to build an Excel sheet import system. An engineer thinking it can be done correctly in three weeks, without bothering to know all the requirements, would be a red flag for all except the most junior of positions.
A junior engineer thinks speed is the most important metric.
In case it helps you to see OPs point, please contact this person for a spreadsheet to import.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608294
It needs half a terabyte of RAM to open.
Re:JIRA is an antipattern
by JustSomeNobody on Sunday December 09, 2018 @09:12PM
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I remember all of the "I could write Twitter in a weekend" posts on blog years ago. Your comment reminded me of that, sadly.
Re:JIRA is an antipattern
by kiallmacinnes on Sunday December 09, 2018 @10:00PM
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What if importing an excel sheet actually means importing an excel sheet, formulas and all, instead of a CSV? Commenting on a hypothetical estimate on a hypothetical story isn't adding much value...
Ah yes, nothing is better than questioning the estimate of a hypothetical user story that lacks any and all detail about the existing environment.
Like, maybe 3 weeks is quick? Maybe there is all kinds of shit you didn't even think of at all? Maybe the excel sheet has all kinds of weird non-canonical data that makes it very hard to reliably import? Maybe nobody on the team ever touched an excel spreadsheet in their life, let alone imported one?
Like.... seriously. Are you one of those people who always go "you people are idiots, I can do task XYZ in 1/3 of the time all you estimated"?
When an engineer tells you something will take 3 weeks, you listen to them.