• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Let’s also not forget that execs are horrible at estimating work.

    “Oh this’ll just be a copy paste job right?” No you idiot this is a completely different system and because of xyz we can’t just copy everything we did on a different project.

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      8 months ago

      Or salesmen. “Oh, you have that another system to integrate with? No, no change in estimates, everything is OK.”

      Then they have a deal concluded etc, and then suddenly that information reaches the people who’ll be actually doing it.