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Re:‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great i... by nicoburns on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:43AM (#27501872)
I guess I just see it as part of doing my job. I wouldn't be able to do it effectively if I didn't do this.

I don't think it's ever been secret in companies that I work for that devs don't spend 100% of their time on assigned tasks. There are always extra things like customer support, ops, urgent requests, unexpected refactoring that come up and have to be dealt with. Project managers I've worked with have mostly cared about the estimate being as accurate as possible taking into account these overheads.

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Re:‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great i... by lostcolony on Monday June 14, 2021 @09:47AM (#27502465)
The places I've worked that required time estimates (the wrong way to do it) still built in an overhead factor of ~30-40%. I.e., recognized that a dev would only put in 4-5 hours of 'coding' a day, with the rest taken up by meetings and random miscellany.
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