Hey y'all. So my manager is giving me "permission" to do coding related activities. I'm part of support, so it's a privilege to be going out of scope of my work.

But I gotta ask, is it me or is 3 hours everyday for large scaled coding project a bit short?

I feel like 3 hours is not enough time to ramp up and then do productive work. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like I am being setup for failure.

Yes I think you are being setup for failure.

If you are only supposed to be programming some agreed upon number of hours, at the very least I would advocate those hours being sequential. 2 days a week instead of 3 hours every day. That kind of thing.

It also depends on what coding activities you do and if there is a reasonable deadline.

For a side project the company wants done but that is not a high priority 3 hours a day can be fine.

But if its related to the main business and will affect earnings its most likely to little and will delay the project.

It could also be a form of training in which case 3 hours can be fine.

But its all dependent on circumstances.

You can manage. I was working like that for about 6 months. Remember that two weeks of coding can save you a day of planning.

P.s. Watch a video or two on event storming and you'll be amazed - it's a way of creating almost bullet-proof specification that saves tons of time and gives you an idea of who to ask and what to ask even before you write a single line of code. If you have a good spec and you work TDD you can code 30 minutes a day and there still will be progress each weak.

@cprn thanks for the input. I'll keep it in mind.