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At this point I'm not sure whether I'm too slow or the deadlines are too tight

People keep asking me for new estimates but I feel like those only serve the purpose of putting pressure on me and pointing fingers at me later when I blow them. It's not like I know when this feature will be ready. New problems crop up as I progress, and people are like "this should have released yesterday". I didn't slept yesterday and neither did I get to enjoy the weekend before that because I tried to make progress in this even though I couldn't bring myself to work in the weekend after all. I feel like I might even lose this job, and I don't have any recruiters spamming me on LinkedIn or a lot of reserve money to last while I look for something else afterwards. Sucks ass to feel incompetent (and quite possibly be, but I hope not). I guess I just have to keep on keeping on.

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    Sounds like you need to take a step back and reevaluate what you’re doing.
    Think about why you’re having problems - is the architecture the problem?, do you need some training time?, are the stories you’re working on clearly defined? Are the goalposts being moved?

    Stop for a day and work through these questions (and others I’ve not thought of). Also look into ways you can iterate and deliver in smaller sizes - what is the real MVP of the product and what is the MVP of each story
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