A manager sends me a message asking if I knew if a “Project X Enhancement” project was still in development (where the original Project X was something I worked on a couple of years ago).
I told her I haven’t heard anything about this Enhancement project, but I did work on the original.
She then asks me if I could estimate how long the project would take.
I don’t even know what’s happening anymore. I was under the impression that her role was to basically manage project planning…
- How does she not know if the project is still in development?
- How does she not know who was working on the project in the first place?
Surely she has enough experience to know that it’s impossible for someone to estimate a project when they literally know nothing about the requirements. Why would she trust my estimates? Surely it’s more beneficial to actually ask the people involved, and, if those people really are unaccounted for, then we’d better find them. Have we really lost contact with a team?
What is going on? How can we be in this situation?
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