It makes me happy to see the good place memes.
Montgomery Scott of the Starship Enterprise has entered the chat.
You know, maybe we shouldn’t be taking estimation advice from a 1980s science fiction movie that amounts to a systematic method of lying.
Yes, I’ve used it before. Yes, you can hopefully have everything average out in the end. Yes, project managers demand estimates. None of these are good reasons to back up how fundamentally flawed it is.
It’s called a joke. We’re in a sub called “programmer humor.” You must be fun at parties.
Except people take that method seriously all the time. All the objections I raised were one’s people have actually thrown back at me.
I’m tons of fun at parties. Everybody loves seeing my collection of bottles from defunct soda companies.
Ah, yes, my favorite activity at parties, looking at some weirdos trash collection.
Hey, if you’re anywhere in the area, I’ve got fine collection of IKEA allen keys a
My boss asking, me: “2 days to a week”.
Meaning: 2 days best case scenario, but there’s likely something where i’m stuck for days trying to solve it, so a week.
My boss: “ok, two days then.”
That’s because all tasks finish in the dot of the “i” of the Jeremy Bearimy sprint, I dunno what to tell you…
