I agree spending time estimating can be annoying, and that badly-estimated deadlines are very often dangerous, and detrimental to code quality.
I think we'll need to agree to disagree on not doing estimates at all though. I think being a good team player means keeping the rest of the company informed of when they can expect a feature to launch. In my experience, partnerships needs to prepare workshops for partners (and customers, in my current situation), communications/marketing needs to get media releases ready, and management needs to inform investors/the Board about how their money is being spent. It's unfair on them to suddenly spring a feature launch and expect them to scramble to get their work done, especially if there's time-sensitivity to what they do (i.e. they need to get their media releases/workshops done within a week of the feature being launched).
But again, that's just my experience - if you don't have people relying on your time estimates, then by all means, estimates are pretty pointless!
Thanks so much Dave, really appreciate it! Also love your "go back to the drawing board" comment - it's super important for people (not just devs) to raise when things aren't possible early on, and to encourage re-thinking the solution (and sometimes the problem, haha).
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I agree spending time estimating can be annoying, and that badly-estimated deadlines are very often dangerous, and detrimental to code quality.
I think we'll need to agree to disagree on not doing estimates at all though. I think being a good team player means keeping the rest of the company informed of when they can expect a feature to launch. In my experience, partnerships needs to prepare workshops for partners (and customers, in my current situation), communications/marketing needs to get media releases ready, and management needs to inform investors/the Board about how their money is being spent. It's unfair on them to suddenly spring a feature launch and expect them to scramble to get their work done, especially if there's time-sensitivity to what they do (i.e. they need to get their media releases/workshops done within a week of the feature being launched).
But again, that's just my experience - if you don't have people relying on your time estimates, then by all means, estimates are pretty pointless!
Why the hell can I only click "love" once on your posts? You deserve a lot more than that!
Thanks so much Dave, really appreciate it! Also love your "go back to the drawing board" comment - it's super important for people (not just devs) to raise when things aren't possible early on, and to encourage re-thinking the solution (and sometimes the problem, haha).