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practiseSafeHex
7y

Currently in the middle of quarterly planning (its been fun so far). Needs to be signed off by business today.

- My team has ~25 man weeks available in terms of capacity.
- Looking at only priority 0 tasks, last night we calculated the ask from product stands at 64.
- Including P1's, P2's etc. its well over 100 man weeks.
- Email was sent around from business with a list of tasks, asking which can be dropped, de-scoped etc.

Product (non technical) response this morning:
- This one can't take 2 weeks, its not that complicated.
- This one needs to stay, It was originally a Q1 task.
- Can we make this one smaller? (currently only a 3 week task)
- 14 comments on other teams items.

<extreme-sarcasm>
... ah perfect, that cut down the items by less than half. We are now ready for the deadline in 4 hours to have all this signed off on. Great job everyone. Thanks for all the insightful discussions. Go team!
</extreme-sarcasm>

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  • 1
    7y
    25 man hugs is great
  • 7
    7y
    @norman70688 depends if he's a good boy or not
  • 4
    7y
    @norman70688 if you get 7 dogs, can they deliver the product in 1 man week? 🤔
  • 4
    7y
    Not sure effective dogs will be in the computer industry
  • 0
    7y
    @practiseSafeHex this is a trick answer, all dogs are good boys.
  • 2
    7y
    This:

    - This one can't take 2 weeks, its not that complicated.

    A nice response is:

    - This can't be that important, and since it's not important, we'll do it next year. Or maybe next one. Sometime maybe.

    If they know how complicated/simple it is, you damn well know how important/irrelevant it is.
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