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Anon practices time management (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by Early_To_Risa to c/greentext

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As a software engineer, the trick is to never tell them it takes four weeks, you promise 5 weeks, procrastinate for 4, and do it in 2, blaming the extra on software being hard. Most execs understand that, and only being a week late is pretty good (my boss adds 2 weeks to all my estimates for his own reporting).

It's a subtle art that most contractors have perfected. Some even deliver on-time, but that's dangerous because the exec might catch on (software is never on-time).