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Re:All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technica... by AstralStorm on Monday August 05, 2019 @12:29PM (#20615451)
Heh, presuming management knows what a hard feature looks like. Or understands the reason why it is hard. They sometimes conflate a patch, a hairy patch or writing correct code from start.

Bonus points if said manager does not understand that writing tests makes one go faster rather than plugging the code and trying to run scenarios manually...

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Re:All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technica... by Gibbon1 on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:08PM (#20617511)
One of the things I now always do is tell my boss both how much work work somethings going to be and how 'hard' something is going to be. Features/changes that are hard have very unreliable estimates. A lot of that has to do with how difficult it is to reason about and debug the feature. And how much other stuff needs to be changed.
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