I largely agree with the main idea in the post, but would push back on this.
As I’ve gotten older, I notice a large proportion of tasks can be chalked up to busywork. Not in the sense that they aren’t real bugs, but they’re not fixing root causes of problems.
To your point about process, there may be a hundred tasks that stem from poor repents management or poor testing process etc. There will likely continue to be many bugs until that root process issue gets fixed. To that end, those root problems generally take much more work to solve.
So, yes, many tasks can be done quickly unless you’re doing true root cause analysis.
I largely agree with the main idea in the post, but would push back on this.
As I’ve gotten older, I notice a large proportion of tasks can be chalked up to busywork. Not in the sense that they aren’t real bugs, but they’re not fixing root causes of problems.
To your point about process, there may be a hundred tasks that stem from poor repents management or poor testing process etc. There will likely continue to be many bugs until that root process issue gets fixed. To that end, those root problems generally take much more work to solve.
So, yes, many tasks can be done quickly unless you’re doing true root cause analysis.