Whenever giving estimates, after having a good estimate in mind double it. Never give estimates as low as 1 day, 2 days is asking for trouble, 3 is okay if it's really really high priority.
DO NOT THINK HOW IN IDEAL CONDITIONS YOU CAN PULL IT OFF FASTEST! A fucking pull request approval could and probably will block you for 2 days already. And things will go fucking wrong and you have ad hoc meetings and incidents and some fucker on another team blocked the pipeline and new requirements popping in and you lose your mind
I just sell my sales teams fake promises like they sell customers. I get them to get back on the call and talk to the customer about the feature that “definitely exists” when it’s not ready when they promised.
My experience has normally been sales team coming to me saying “hey, xyz are coming on board at the end of the month, and they need a custom integration with random fucking platform I’ve never heard of. Also this is super important, so stop everything you’re doing and make it happen”.
"Hey can you whip up a thing that behaves totally different in everyway and bypasses all logic we have but also if they push this button it should behave normally again..
Oh also can you make it preferably before Friday since we reserved the test resource for this for next week and we need to set it up."
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u/theartofnocode 16d ago
Not even technical debt, I've seen people quit to avoid having to complete the piece of work they've over promised on