oCricket Blog » Management http://blog.ocricket.com What's happening at oCricket Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:39:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Managers' Deadlines vs. Developers' Estimates http://blog.ocricket.com/managers-deadlines-vs-developers-estimates/ http://blog.ocricket.com/managers-deadlines-vs-developers-estimates/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:06:25 +0000 Brajeshwar http://11.ocricket.com/?p=174 Deadlines come from external sources, for example, “Feature X needs to be ready for the summer trade show”.
Estimates come from internal sources, for example, “Feature X will take me N weeks to complete”.Hackification hints to few steps to ease the situation where the deadline is shorter than the estimate;

Managers

  • Let the person doing the work create the estimate.
  • Don’t override an estimate with a deadline.

Developers

  • Respect for your estimates only flows from accurate estimates.
  • Accurate estimates come from tiny tasks.
  • Review your estimates after the event.

Marketing

  • Explain the reason for the deadline

Read the article in full at Hackification.

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