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by johnnyanmac 659 days ago
It's all relative of course. But keep on mind that 700 hours is about 4.5 months of full time work. I sure have had epics lasting much longer than that. And the "concert" is just shipping/launching whole I'm already working on the next epic. Maybe later on we bug fix, but we never truly get to "own" a feature the way a musician owns a song and gets to re-perform it in their repertoire.

I'm not really trying to establish which is harder or easier. Just that the pipelines and layoffs differ immensely.

And