• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    86
    ·
    3 months ago

    Devs are famously bad at estimating how long a software project will take.

    No, highly complex creative work is inherently extremely difficult to estimate.

    Anyway, not shocked at all by the results. This is a great start that begs for larger and more rigorous studies.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      “Devs are famously bad at estimating how long a software project will take.”

      No, highly complex creative work is inherently extremely difficult to estimate.

      Akshually… I’m on a dev team where about 60% of us are diagnosed with ADHD. So, at least in our case, it’s both.

        • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          3 months ago

          We’re the only ones that can get hyper focused and also hyper fixated on why a switch statement is failing when it includes a for loop until finding out there’s actually a compiler bug, and if you leave a space after the bracket it somehow works correctly.

          That was a fun afternoon.