Isaac FreemanThe worst thing that ever happened in software engineering was when Kirk asked Scotty how long something would take and Scotty said thirty minutes and Kirk said you’ve got five and Scotty got it done in five and impressionable children watched this and grew up to become managers.
itemgoddess@isaacfreeman Stuck on a project where exactly this is happening!
@itemgoddess Sorry to hear that.
The worst of it is that I do kind of get why people end up managing this way, even when they do know it’s unlikely to work.
The thing is that nobody can actually estimate reliably how long software development will take, but everyone is expected to pretend that they can.
Collette Lynner@itemgoddess @isaacfreeman oh I hope you find your way out soon.