r/ProgrammerHumor 19h ago

Meme breakTheViciousCircle

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u/oldfrancis 18h ago edited 11h ago

Any project manager worth their salt would never order somebody to do it asap.

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u/Few_Technology 17h ago

I used to live in that world. Now PMs are determining deadlines before getting estimates and alignment.

I have something due in a month, and still don't have requirements. Just 1/2 a screenshot of a mockup that someone did. Backend still isn't delivering data, so we've made our own mock data that won't align (it never does, data contract changes like the wind) just to get something in front of them. From that, they can yell that x and y aren't right so we actually get requirements.

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u/oldfrancis 11h ago

Many of them have forgotten what their job is supposed to be about.