Yeah it’s why at later jobs I advocate for complexity points and don’t do consulting anymore.
Tying money to hours spent on a task just encourages all the wrong behavior.
Yeah it’s why at later jobs I advocate for complexity points and don’t do consulting anymore.
Tying money to hours spent on a task just encourages all the wrong behavior.
I just don’t work at places that do time tracking like that anymore.
My favorite was getting reamed because you put 30 minutes over the estimated hours on a task.
It made task accounting a nightmare as you’d have to dump hours onto unrelated task whenever something inevitably took longer than expected.
People that advocate for presentation naming haven’t endured a major company rebrand.
No Starch Press usually does good stuff.
No Starch, Manning, and O’Reilly are my go to publishers for tech books.
I try to avoid Packt like the plague.
Then you can wipe out windows when you realize you don’t use it anymore :)