New ask Hacker News story: How fair do you think time estimate within 30% is? Plus/minus 20% if over 3 days
How fair do you think time estimate within 30% is? Plus/minus 20% if over 3 days
2 by b0rsuk | 4 comments on Hacker News.
Today our boss came up with a "reorganization" to "improve efficiency". He expects us to estimate time needed with max 30% deviation, and max 20% deviation if it's over 3 days. Software projects. * * * Background (SPOILERS) boss is an old programmer, an American client is outsourcing its work to us. The work is two repos: a) IE-compatible Javascript without Babel or Node (ES5), b) Python 2.7 with no unit tests, no dev database, lots of "except: pass". Both repos are centered around a god class, functions often 100,200,300+ lines , no documentation, very few comments, superficial but nitpicky code reviews, one or maybe two questions answered per day.
2 by b0rsuk | 4 comments on Hacker News.
Today our boss came up with a "reorganization" to "improve efficiency". He expects us to estimate time needed with max 30% deviation, and max 20% deviation if it's over 3 days. Software projects. * * * Background (SPOILERS) boss is an old programmer, an American client is outsourcing its work to us. The work is two repos: a) IE-compatible Javascript without Babel or Node (ES5), b) Python 2.7 with no unit tests, no dev database, lots of "except: pass". Both repos are centered around a god class, functions often 100,200,300+ lines , no documentation, very few comments, superficial but nitpicky code reviews, one or maybe two questions answered per day.
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