> "gun to your head, you have to finish in 24 hours, what do you do?"
PSA: if you are a project manager / owner or some other similar position you do not get to ask this. This is a personal educational excercise not a way to get stuff done faster.
PSA: if you are a project manager / owner or some other similar position you do not get to ask this. This is a personal educational excercise not a way to get stuff done faster.
But I've also worked at places where things were underbuilt (e.g 0 test environments whatsoever except prod). If there was a gun to my head, to finish something in 1 hour, I'd test in prod.
So I think advice that sometimes is useful, sometimes is damaging, isn't really helpful. Not unless there's an easy way to tell which situation is which.
"I set aside the slides for the pointless CEO presentation tomorrow and work exclusively on this."
"No, you can't cancel on the CEO. Let's say you have two guns to your head and 24 hours, what do you do?"
"I take lots of coffee, skip sleeping tonight, cancel the group status meeting for Wednesday and focus on these two things."
"If you do that we'll look bad in front of the whole group. Let's say you have three guns to your head..."