I'd have to agree... It has not been unusual to estimate three months
for something, and that's fairly realistic to do it right, and the
business says "nope, 1.5 months is when we need it". Well, what the
heck did you ask me for an estimate for in the first place then?!?
I'm a lead architect by the way, very much in a position to influence
deadlines, but at the end of the day IT is there to service the
business, not the other way around (unless you happen to work for an IT
company of course!), so, as Martin says, what's unreasonable?
Frank
Martin Gainty wrote:
What qualifies as unreasonable? ..give the project lead 2 weeks and
he/she cuts it to 2 days?
BTW: Thats 99% of the companies Ive worked for..
Where specifically do they NOT follow that behaviour?
M-
----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Broughton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Hibernate vs. iBatis vs. POJO
Frank W. Zammetti wrote:
In such cases, the application IS important enough to code
trials, but the business won't allow you to but they STILL want you to
sweat the decisions! This is a typical way of doing things, going by my
experience.
It depends what _your_ job is. If you're a consultant, you're
expected to
_know_ the technology, and the customer isn't paying for you to
experiment.
If you're an employee, I've never worked in a situation where you
don't get
the time to evaluate the right techniques.
Even if its the largest initiative of the year for the company, the most
important project, there is still a deadline, usually and unreasonable
one, and taking the time to properly evaluate options isn't always
given.
Then go find a new job. There's lots of them for capable people - don't
work at places that put unreasonable demands on you.
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derek
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