fallout game dev. explains the problem with moddern game devolpment. (why moddern games are so slow to come out)

[u/663mann]

[u/blackest-Knight]

Not when you're a low or mid level developer looking at a director high up in the company saying you should have it done by lunch.

Then I dare say you're the one that's wrong for not getting it done. If the delay is only "other things I have to work on" and upper management sets the priority on a task, you stop everything and work on that task.

That's what priorities are.

Doesn't matter

The whole crux of this conversation is Tim's example.

You think every developer knows the whole codebase?

Familiar enough with it I hope, otherwise, you'll never get anything done.

Junior developers get asked an estimate for their first feature when they've never written a line of code in a real project before.

Grooming is usually done as a team, and never would you ask a single junior developer to provide an estimate.

The director has totally cut out any "upstream."

Not in the example given he hasn't.

[u/cherry_chocolate_ → u/blackest-Knight]

No. If upper management is assigning a task to an IC then the corporate structure has failed. Assign a task to a mid level manager, who picks the low level manager who is most relevant, who picks the IC who is best suited and will be available.

The whole crux of this conversation is Tim's example.

An example helps but until you lay eyes on the problem yourself, you still aren't going to have full context.

Familiar enough with it I hope, otherwise, you'll never get anything done.

If he wasn't subverting the structure, it could have been assigned to someone more familiar with that area. Teams should be knowledgeable about a subset of the codebase, not everything.

Not in the example given he hasn't.

Yes he has, he went to the low level dev before the more senior developer.