Re:The Hard Part of Learning a Language
by hedora on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:42AM
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Find a better PM.
The competent ones I’ve worked with invariably convince engineers their “weekend project” will take at least 2 months. They start by getting the engineer to spend an afternoon enumerating all the tasks they need to complete to implement and ship it.
Then the engineer takes 3 months, when they would have taken 6 without help from the PM. This is because the PM follows up, and helps them be ruthless with the requirements list.
The competent ones I’ve worked with invariably convince engineers their “weekend project” will take at least 2 months. They start by getting the engineer to spend an afternoon enumerating all the tasks they need to complete to implement and ship it.
Then the engineer takes 3 months, when they would have taken 6 without help from the PM. This is because the PM follows up, and helps them be ruthless with the requirements list.