"If you tell me how much time a task will take, please don't specify the time in hours or days, but use these made up 'points' that mean different things to different people"
Also, many commenters saying this is in bad taste, badmouthing architects or assuming a victimized 'hurr programming is so hard' stance. I read it differently, as a critique of the software industry itself, about how we're utterly unable to get our clients to understand the realities of our work.
Noone in their right mind would ask for a house with 2-to-42 bedrooms. Yet the average IT worker somehow accepts this as normal in their software work. It would behoove us to get our clients to understand this, and not delegate that task to the scrumlords... who generally only make things more confusing and complex.
Also, many commenters saying this is in bad taste, badmouthing architects or assuming a victimized 'hurr programming is so hard' stance. I read it differently, as a critique of the software industry itself, about how we're utterly unable to get our clients to understand the realities of our work.
Noone in their right mind would ask for a house with 2-to-42 bedrooms. Yet the average IT worker somehow accepts this as normal in their software work. It would behoove us to get our clients to understand this, and not delegate that task to the scrumlords... who generally only make things more confusing and complex.