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[arvinsim]

It's funny that some managers give the deadline first and then direct the developers to do Scrum to figure out how to do it in that timeline.

[gherkinnn → arvinsim]

“But we need to know how much it will cost us”

“External factors demand we implement feature X by that date”

“Let’s just hire more people, preferably more PMs”

“We have many more ideas in our pipeline. In order to orchestrate these, we need precise estimations.”

[thedaemon → gherkinnn]

My last job kept hiring more PMs and no techs. It was horrible. I kept having to tell the customers "Sorry we can't get the projects done, we have 5 project managers and only 2 techs."

[pavel_lishin → arvinsim]

A laugh riot, it is.