Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It's hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.
  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
    19·
    1 year ago

    At my work, we have P1 and P2 tickets. Ideally you get them all done in a week, but you’re only supposed to have 3 days worth of P1 tickets, so it’s required to have all the P1s done.

    It worked really well for a few weeks. Then the PM started putting 4, 5, I even had one week where I had 9 days worth of P1 tickets assigned.

    I’m growing very tired of this company.

  • Wojwo@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    What happened to estimating the pessimistic, most likely and optimistic times and apply that to a beta distribution? That’s how I was taught back in the dark ages.