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I very often hear this comment from my fellow developper colleagues. In our startup, I am responsible for the frontend coding. Very frequently, I get requests from other developpers to implement this or this, and very often those requests are annotated by a "c'mon, it is just CSS, it'll only take you 5 minutes" when they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about, because they never ever did real frontend developpment. They simply think that everything boils down to HTML and that frontend is NOT really programming. Attempting to explain that a frontend also has logic similar to backend, and that no, plotting graphs when you don't even have the data modeled is not just a 2 liner with Google Visualisation. I am always offended by people estimating time for work they never did. So I find myself very rarely giving estimations. Sometimes when I have a very precise idea on how to implement an idea right when I'm being told about it, I usually say "yeah this is definitely doable in a short time span". Meaning things that do not take more than half a day to implement, because you already compiled the code in your brain. Now, when a colleague of mine estimates stuff for me, I tell them "No I don't think this is going to take X minutes to implement. If you think it is implementable so fast, why don't you go ahead and do it.". When they take it to the word, and I see them still struggling after many hours on some problem that are trivial to me, I will go ahead and help them out. After a few times, they usually won't bother me with estimations anymore... NOT. |