• wheresmysurplusvalue [comrade/them]
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    7 months ago

    My boss gives me the opposite. He asked me to give a work estimate on a year-long project, he added +25% buffer for unknowns and submitted it. When the work ended, we were so efficient that we only used 70% of the estimated budget, and this was a problem! Buddy, that's why they're called estimates, we can't make perfect guesses before requirements are gathered.

    • Wakmrow [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      This is basically how we got the agile manifesto

    • RustCat [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Isn't being under-budget usually considered a positive?

      • wheresmysurplusvalue [comrade/them]
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        7 months ago

        Nope because in this case our client has to request a budget and justify it, so in this case they asked for too much and have to explain what went wrong