Dear Client, Here’s Why That Change Took So Long
What gets me is that software has been a mainstay of modern business for _at least_ 30 years.  And this whole time, every single professional software developer has been telling every single non-software developer the exact same thing, over and over: this takes longer to do than you think.  If, say, 80% of developers were knocking things out, problem free, in an hour or two and the other 20% were hanging back like a 50’s union boss saying, “yeah, that’s going to be an all-day job easy”, then maybe I could understand why they STILL think we’re lying.  Even if 20% of the devs could get things done in the time they seem to think it takes and the other 80% were hemming and hawing I could still understand this perspective.  But that’s not the ratio.  0% of devs can reliably complete tasks in the time that MBA’s seem to think it should take and 100% of devs take longer than they “wish” it would take and THEY STILL AREN’T PAYING ATTENTION.