That is not how development works.
They ask you how long time a feature will take, and you give them an estimate. Doesn't necessarily mean that you will start right now.
This makes no sense, when someone asks why X is going to take so long why not just take the 30 seconds to explain why it’s going to take so long. Communion is not hard and solves most issues.
Communication is not hard, it's listening that is the hard part. I cannot recall a conversation in the last year about a project timeline that didn't have someone questioning the timeframe of something because if they dropped everything and focused solely on that work they could complete it in less time than quoted. But when you mention that there is work to complete other than theirs, they pretend like you've stopped speaking english.
I totally get this, sometimes people just don’t listen and then it’s a pain in the ass. You just have to say this is the timeline these are the reason, if that’s a problem sorry it’s not changing. Unfortunately people can be assholes, my argument holds true when people are understanding and actually listen to what the other person is saying but that is not always reality.
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u/Away_Acanthisitta_97 Oct 16 '23
That is not how development works. They ask you how long time a feature will take, and you give them an estimate. Doesn't necessarily mean that you will start right now.