Re:Why do some developers consider Agile development to be n...
by kabdib on Monday April 13, 2015 @10:15AM
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Depends on the bug, sure.
It's my job [or used to be :-)] to give estimates of bug fix times to management.
It usually broke down to:
- trivial (about an hour)
- nearly trivial (maybe half a day or a day)
- "I have no earthly idea". The last one of these that I fixed involved about twenty people, deep dives into our hypervisor and interprocessor communication mechanisms, research into some hardware details and three 100+ hour weeks about four weeks before we shipped. And we started out not having any idea where in the system the problem was (that took two of those weeks).
It's my job [or used to be :-)] to give estimates of bug fix times to management.
It usually broke down to:
- trivial (about an hour)
- nearly trivial (maybe half a day or a day)
- "I have no earthly idea". The last one of these that I fixed involved about twenty people, deep dives into our hypervisor and interprocessor communication mechanisms, research into some hardware details and three 100+ hour weeks about four weeks before we shipped. And we started out not having any idea where in the system the problem was (that took two of those weeks).