• Blapoo@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Never give firm estimates. It’s done when it’s done. Feel free to check in.

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      1 year ago

      Customers kinda want to know in advance if a task will take 2 hours or 200 hours in advance

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      As someone who has been doing this for two decades, I disagree. Give a firm estimate, and always deliver before you said you would, just make sure you pad the fuck out of that estimate so that it would be virtually impossible not to accomplish it.