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by steveBK123 on Friday June 02, 2023 @09:01AM
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Had a boss that did this, but always picked the overconfident, unreliable, under-bidder. He was incapable of bidding anything in increments of days/weeks. Everything was "an hour" to "an afternoon".
So I'd say "2 weeks to complete end to end".
The other guy would say "I'll crank it out this afternoon". Other guy would deliver code that wouldn't run, and then require 3 weeks from me, QA, and him to actually massage into something that works the right way.
So instead of 2 person-weeks, it would take like ~5-6 person-weeks all in. Great stuff.
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by adrianmsmith on Friday June 02, 2023 @12:20PM
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I’ve been there many times too.
My conclusion in former years was that I had won, as I’d been right. But my conclusion now is that the other employee won, as they get to deliver the software, increase their “power” as they now know about one more piece of software or feature (on account of having written it). The overrun will be forgotten, but “this person delivered the feature” will be remembered.
What happens next? The project was delivered after two weeks due to back and forth testing and integration, debugging, etc.