> how easy it would be to fix ... obviously underestimated the difficulty of ...
If I had a dollar for every job that I didnt get where I estimated the correct degree of difficulty, and they laughed, went with the person who said it would be easy and they could bang it out in a day of sleeping - I would be rich.
That's because there is no penalty for being late in many projects. As soon as there is, this doesn't happen anymore but in software there hardly ever is any real penalty.
As soon as there is a dead serious one, I've noticed everyone get serious and starts ignoring the rainbows and unicorns people. If it's a slap on the write the rainbows still win.
If I had a dollar for every job that I didnt get where I estimated the correct degree of difficulty, and they laughed, went with the person who said it would be easy and they could bang it out in a day of sleeping - I would be rich.
The loud optimist wins the 5.1 mil every time.