Archive for April 2nd, 2014
Musings on the Mythical Man-Month Chapter 2
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Personal, Programming on April 2, 2014
tl;dr: Scheduling tasks is hard We assume everything will go well, but we’re actually crap at estimating We confuse progress with effort Because we’re crap at estimating, managers are also crap at estimating Progress is poorly monitored If we fall behind, natural reaction is to add more people Overly optimistic: Three stages of creation: Idea, […]