- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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Procrastination ALWAYS paid off for me.
Though I usually succeed despite procrastination, I’m pretty sure in most cases things would have gone better with alacrity.
Worked for me, could be an environment problem.
My PM doesn’t tell me to do anything. Their job is to prioritize things on the backlog and give status updates. Very, very rarely do they tell me that whatever I’m working on no longer needs to be done at all.
Generally speaking, if I do get an interruption, it’s from the person above the Project Manager. And they’re more of the “shit hit the fan” variety of problems that need to be resolved.
My PMs are all about time allocation… yet they fail to understand what research is.
Pm: How long until you finish designing and implementing this thing?
Me: I cant put a time on it, weve never done this before and have no points of reference. So i could figure it out today or a month from today…i cant give you a time because its bever been implemented.
PM: Sighs in dissapproval… ill just say 5 business days. Hows that.
Me: if we are just making up numbers, sure
5 days seems pretty reasonable to design and build most stuff. It’s function and system/integrated test that takes time not to say there’s not random bits of work that take months before anything testable can be produced.
*My experience is in giant systems processing mainframe class data. The programmers in my team use COBOL
just don’t you dare ever proactively prevent a problem
always gotta spend 5x on the current dumpster fire
Which is when I just do it I tell them afterward. I build it into my estimates so it doesn’t put us behind.
There are still a few cans that get kicked down the road though, for various reasons.
Prime Minister? Prime meridian? Protocol maintainer?
Penis Massager
Penis Magician
Penile Manager
Pikachu Mammogram
PM expert mode challenge: recall the last thing you asked for
It doesn’t count if what they remember is that 6 business days ago you agreed to 5 business days
