5y

Manager: How long until the current set of tickets is complete?

Dev: Based on storyboard points it’ll be 1.5 weeks from now

Manager: That’s unacceptable! Let me take a look at the board and see if I can remove some low priority tickets.

Later that day

Manager: Oooo I found a bunch of really exciting tickets in the backlog that I forgot about. I’ve added them to the board.

Dev: Did you remove any?

Manager: Huh? Oh right. No, I looked and it all needs to get done.

Dev: With these new tickets added to the board our new estimate is 4 weeks.

Manager: WHAT?!? BUT I SPENT ALL DAY LOOKING FOR EFFICIENCIES!!

Dev: …

rant

garbage collection

management logic

Ranter

Comments

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iSwimInTheC

41598

5y

Beautiful 🤌
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Floydimus

8371

5y

That's what a manager's job is to do.

Make things inefficient.
4

IntrusionCM

13702

5y

... @Floydimus only fucktwat managers.
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sariel

7874

5y

If devs are the threaded worker processes, and OPs is the platform.

That must mean that management is the user that keeps clicking submit because, "it takes too long".

This is why working at a talented startup is preferable, because management is like sand in your gas tank.
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Floydimus

8371

5y

@IntrusionCM A manager is a manager.
3

santiagodias

63

5y

But four weeks is fast unless you're just changing colours, but for features.
3

Oktokolo

11146

5y

"The devs just need some sense of urgency to increase their ticket-solving speed."
1

IntrusionCM

13702

5y

@Floydimus *I'll sit in my corner and cry now*
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Floydimus

8371

5y

@IntrusionCM before that finish your JIRAs.
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IntrusionCM

13702

5y

@Floydimus ...

*Bites in your head*

Nomnomnom.
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Floydimus

8371

5y

@IntrusionCM interesting. Early to death.. saves me time.
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SoldierOfCode

1921

5y

@iiii E - eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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iSwimInTheC

41598

5y

@SoldierOfCode Tune a piano, but it's all E
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playstore

0

5y

This is very educational content and written well for a change

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