I quit the tech industry

Re:I quit the tech industry by libria on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @01:04PM (#9693664)

> 1) Developers cannot reliably estimate software timelines.

Disagree. Developers can provide reliable low risk estimates that will most certainly be rejected or truncated by management.

The problem is not estimates, the problem is every manager fantasizing that their Captain Kirk strategy,

    "I'll have it fixed in 4 minutes, Captain"
    "Do it in 2."

is some form of motivating leadership.

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Re:I quit the tech industry by eclipxe on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @01:42PM (#9693951)

EVERY manager? Hyperbole there...

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Re:I quit the tech industry by libria on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @03:35PM (#9694737)

I misspoke. I meant more along the lines of

> the problem is any manager

If your greater point is that some developers really are poor estimators, I agree, but all of them operate under pressure to err on the optimistic side.

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Re:I quit the tech industry by dasil003 on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:02AM (#9697437)

There are two ways to parse that sentence:

1. Every manager does that

2. Every manager that does that is the problem

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