Programming

26304 readers

1077 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Follow the programming.dev instance rules
Keep content related to programming in some way
If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

snowe@programming.dev

Ategon@programming.dev

UlrikHD@programming.dev

bugsmith@programming.dev

Spyro@programming.dev

169

Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them (piechowski.io)

submitted 1 day ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

54 comments fedilink hide all child comments

A client’s team spent a full week adding a CSV export to their admin panel. Two engineers, clear requirements, maybe a day of actual work. The rest of the time went to understanding existing code well enough to change it safely. That’s what I call codebase drag: when the codebase makes every task take longer than it should. It doesn’t show up in any dashboard or sprint report.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To quote my manager from today: “I don’t want us to spin our wheels and turn this into a month long effort”

The request is to effectively rearchitect a foundational part of the system. It’s a large lift project that should take weeks.

Of course I pushed back, I have good rapport with him and I’m not worried about getting fired over this. Not everyone has that.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

“This isn’t a bazaar. We don’t haggle over deadlines. We professionally estimate them.”

[–] Poik@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

Nevermind, it does sound like you work in software. This is a very familiar quote. x.x And it always comes right before planning slows to a crawl.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've never heard the phrase "We professionally estimate deadlines", but I'm gonna start using it. Thanks for that little nugget!