Proposal: ban the phrase "just a small change" from…
Rachel Kim@rachelkim
Proposal: ban the phrase "just a small change" from planning meetings. Every time I hear it, I quietly add a week to the estimate, and I have not been wrong yet.
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Rachel Kim
Product manager at a B2B HR software company in Seattle. Former engineer, so I know what "just a small change" costs. Writing about discovery, prioritization and saying no nicely.
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Sign in to commentMarcus Johnson@marcus_oncall
add 'should be easy' and 'can't we just' to the list. those three phrases have caused more incidents than kubernetes