Re:Forecast, don't guesstimate your software projects
by throwaway092837 on Saturday June 13, 2020 @08:42AM
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To make the company more profitable at expense of your health.
The whole activity of estimation, planning and reviewing is often just a way to implement micromanagement.
What is the benefit? It pushes engineers to spend 100% of their time on urgent tasks and stop doing any learning, exploration of new ideas, discussing alternatives, socializing.
[Over]committing creates a constant sense of urgency that leads to higher productivity in the short term. Unsurprisingly, it's a source of burnout.
Why should you burn yourself out just to do an arbitrary number of tasks, based on wildly inaccurate estimates, just to meet an artificial sprint deadline?