I've never been on anything that tight, but I'll say that the projects I've been on where we used Gantt charts and had a dedicated project manager got done with a lot more precision than anything managed by an agile process.
Maybe it's just me, but having my reputation staked on my estimates with an easy to read chart of dependencies and deadlines helps me 'servo' my effort(i.e. work overtime) and come in closer to the estimate.
I wouldn't suggest that for everyone, but some of us like that sort of pressure and the feeling that comes with nailing it. Then again, I don't have kids.
Never once got someone with a hardon for Gantt charts to make an honest graph of what depended on what, so I have nothing but bad, borderline traumatic experiences with Gantt charts.
Management always tried to ride them like it was sheet music for an orchestra. This has to be done before this, so we’re going to schedule one to start the day after the other finishes. Sure. This whole scheduling process is a farce so I’m now entirely checked out, so it’s just going to get worse as the meeting goes on.
Bruh stop being a bootlicker; even if you enjoy doing unpaid work, you're undermining your colleagues who probably don't. When the work takes longer than estimated, that's a problem with the estimate, not a reason you should be giving more hours of your life to rich owners.
> even if you enjoy doing unpaid work, you're undermining your colleagues who probably don't
Busting my ass in my younger days to make "impossible" deadlines was far from unpaid work. It was a conscious tradeoff that paid off extremely well in cash and stock, and nobody cared about "undermining" their colleagues who had the exact same opportunities but chose not to chase them.
I don't "enjoy doing unpaid work", I "enjoy impressing people who casually throw big bags of money at people who are useful to them."
IIRC this falls into classic fallacy where teams set low goals so as to always exceed them. The better way is to have people estimate and bet money on delivery.
Maybe a bigger company could do it like some card games decide on who will choose the game: Make several teams "bid" on the contract, the one with the best bid gets it, but winning the game (e.g. getting bonuses) depends on if they can actually deliver on their bid.
Maybe it's just me, but having my reputation staked on my estimates with an easy to read chart of dependencies and deadlines helps me 'servo' my effort(i.e. work overtime) and come in closer to the estimate.
I wouldn't suggest that for everyone, but some of us like that sort of pressure and the feeling that comes with nailing it. Then again, I don't have kids.