I once was doing a project estimate on a job. I was tasked to oversee an upgrade to the entire way the company did business (legal compliance) and I was responsible for 80 percent of the company's business (just me-they had a team of 10 doing the other 20 percent). We're talking BILLIONS of dollars worth of business here. They wanted us to be done in 6 months! They made me do the schedule (among other things I'm a PM). I looked at the work load, staffing, production dates, and the rest of it and the real time was going to be 18 months. That's what I submitted. With ALL of the proof.
They re-wrote it to six months.
I wouldn't sign it and quit not that long afterwards.
That was already factored into the effort estimate.
And the electricity budget, as well
Will wo—, uh, read comics and memes for coffee. ☕️
I once was doing a project estimate on a job. I was tasked to oversee an upgrade to the entire way the company did business (legal compliance) and I was responsible for 80 percent of the company's business (just me-they had a team of 10 doing the other 20 percent). We're talking BILLIONS of dollars worth of business here. They wanted us to be done in 6 months! They made me do the schedule (among other things I'm a PM). I looked at the work load, staffing, production dates, and the rest of it and the real time was going to be 18 months. That's what I submitted. With ALL of the proof.
They re-wrote it to six months.
I wouldn't sign it and quit not that long afterwards.