erratio: (Default)
2007-05-11 05:46 pm

Searching sites/blogs

A while back I read a funny story. I would like to find it again. Here is the situation:

I know the main site it came from. The story was contained in a comment to a post. I don't remember what the original post was about, nor do I remember the exact wording for the story, so googling is out. I don't even remember the exact timeframe I read the story in, nor did I talk about it online with anyone at the time (in case I could search chat logs to get a better idea of the date).

So.. is there any way to find this comment short of checking every post within the last 6 months or so?

EDIT: David has awesome Googling skills that I can only envy. Thank you!

And here's the story:
A developer was going on vacation for a few weeks, but knew that his contribution to the upcoming product would be scheduled while he was gone. So he put a tray outside his office holding two six-sided dice and a note reading “To estimate the development time required for any features I am developing, please roll the dice. The total is the number of weeks the feature will take to code and test.” The project manager went ballistic and called him in and said “you can’t do this!” The developer replied, “this is what I’ve been doing for the past five years when people asked me to predict development times, and my estimates have been just as good as anyone else’s.”

For an interesting analysis of project management and the skills required, here's the link to read the surrounding comments: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1087