Ask HN: Dev leads and managers: want me to build this?
It’s a estimation and project management tool that’s basic but gets out of your way. It answers the questions you’ll really get asked even though you are pretending to do agile/scrum :-)
So basically ahead of you are a bunch of tasks. A team. And estimations.
You also have planned leave, meetings, public holidays, occasional sickness, company social events etc.
You get asked questions like “when will X be released? Followed by “why so long, ain’t it just…?”
This is where my tool comes in!
At the heart it’s a spreadsheet. Rows are people, columns are days.
It knows when people are definitely unavailable and understands that in probability people will be sick, ask for last minute leave or get hauled j to meetings.
You drag tasks against a person and it places them to cover the elapsed days they will take.
It is easy to drag and rearrange stuff and it might even adjust times depending on factors e.g. senior va junior.
We all know this is BS! Estimation is hard. But two things about that:
A plan doesn’t survive contact with reality but you should still plan.
You need to explain stuff to your boss!
So that’s it really. There is more to this going around in my head but that’s the gist.
Who would like this? Who would say they wouldn’t be totally against paying $99/m for a tool like this for their team?