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I once interviewed a project manager.. asked how he came up with deadlines. He said "ask the programmers and subtract 20%". Talk about a red flag in an intervie
by dustin 14y ago
I once interviewed a project manager.. asked how he came up with deadlines. He said "ask the programmers and subtract 20%". Talk about a red flag in an interview!
- hessenwolf 14y agoBrilliant. So much for 'just take whatever I tell you and multiply it by three'.
- ckpwong 14y agoThat's the line I heard from a previous PM I had too.
- drunkpotato 14y agoI heard somewhere long ago "double the estimate and add a unit". Two weeks ==> Four months.
- infinite_snoop 14y agoand then multiply that figure by 3.14 to account for running around in circles
- hellweaver666 14y agoThat's funny, because as a programmer I always estimate how long it'll take and add 20%.
- baruch 14y agoYou still lose x1.20.8 = 0.96*x
- scott_w 14y agoOnly 20%? A recent conversation I had with my MD, regarding how long to estimate for a project, involved me adding 6 months for each feature added to the specification. We're also careful emphasise how inaccurate these estimates are, and we don't really know until we start. Of course this is the initial "finger in the air" stage. We try to be a little more concrete with more immediate requirements. Of course, we've gotten those badly wrong too.
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