[OT] Extra time spent

[Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 14:39:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 01:24:20PM +0000, Dejan Lekic via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> [...]
>> A typical scenario is when (top-level) manager (M) want thing
>> yesterday, and tell senior engineer (SE)
>> 
>> M: How long will it take?
>> SE: Well, we did not even analyse the requirements for this 
>> feature.
>> Let's spend some time brainstorming this first, and then I 
>> will be
>> able to do better estimation.
>> M: We have no time for that, and I think you already have all 
>> you
>> need.
>> SE: OK, 3 days.
>> M: What??? We need this thing yesterday!
>> SE: Well, I could do a quick hack... It will take 1 day, but 
>> we will
>> not have time to test, no time for code quality, etc.
>> M: DO IT!!!
>> (that "quick hack" code stays there because next week another 
>> urgent
>> thing came, and SE never had time to make the code better)
>> 
>> Moral of the story: it is not SE whom we have to blame for bad 
>> code,
>> it can easily be the management who made deliberate decision 
>> for
>> that...
> [...]
>
> Yeah that sounds very familiar. A typical situation at my job 
> goes
> something like this:
>
> Customer: I want feature X!
> Sales rep: OK, we'll implement X in 1 month.
> Customer: No, I want it by last month!
> Sales rep: OK, and we'll throw in feature Y too, at no extra 
> charge.
> (Later)
> Sales rep (to coders): Here's a new project for you: implement 
> X and Y.
> Coders: That sounds really complicated! It will take us 2 
> months.
> Sales rep: What?! We don't have 2 months! They want this by 
> *last* month!
> Coders: That's impossible. Even the quickest hack we can do 
> will take 1
> 	month.
> Sales rep: This is a huge customer and it's going to cost us a 
> billion
> 	dollar deal! You have to *make* it work!
> Coders: sigh... OK, 3 weeks.
> Sales rep: No, yesterday.
> Coders: Fine, tomorrow we'll make a paper-n-glue model.
> Sales rep: Today.
> Coders: Sigh...
>
>
> T

That's why I love being a manager AND a coder!

;-)

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Paolo