{"id":388,"date":"2013-11-14T13:13:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T18:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/?p=388"},"modified":"2013-11-14T13:13:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T18:13:23","slug":"388","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A handy technique I found was that whenever a programmer balked at giving an estimate, I&#8217;d ask, &#8220;What questions can I answer that would make you more confident about giving an estimate?&#8221; By getting him to be specific, I gave him the opportunity to confront the fear or frustration he might feel, which allowed me to help solve his problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <em>Making Things Happen<\/em>, <strong>Scott Berkun<\/strong><\/blockquote>\n<p>Found this passage to be quite enlightening, and I have got to remember to use it if the case presents itself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handy technique I found was that whenever a programmer balked at giving an estimate, I&#8217;d ask, &#8220;What questions can I answer that would make you more confident about giving an estimate?&#8221; By getting him to be specific, I gave him the opportunity to confront the fear or frustration he might feel, which allowed me to help solve his problem. &#8212; Making Things Happen, Scott Berkun Found this passage to be quite enlightening, and I have got to remember to use it if the case presents itself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}