Re:“I’ll Finish It This Week” and Other Lies
by magicalhippo on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @09:08AM
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d) Explain to my boss why I think it will take four weeks rather than two.
We'll then have a discussion and come up with a hopefully more realistic estimate. This might include finding a different solution to the problem.
Sometimes it has to be done in two weeks, and then the issue is what we can do in two weeks. Other times it's just a bigger problem than what my boss assumed. And yet again maybe I'm overthinking things and it can actually be done in two weeks.
We'll then have a discussion and come up with a hopefully more realistic estimate. This might include finding a different solution to the problem.
Sometimes it has to be done in two weeks, and then the issue is what we can do in two weeks. Other times it's just a bigger problem than what my boss assumed. And yet again maybe I'm overthinking things and it can actually be done in two weeks.