I keep getting tired before 5 pm. Is this supposed to happen?

What do you have for lunch?

It might be that you're having a blood sugar crash.

I think it's just amount of mental effort I use throughout the day.

Thinking about this project I'm working on. I dont have a lot of time to work on it.

Yeah, I'm low touch across 319 projects right now.

it's exhausting sometimes.

It's me dealing with people. We got a sponsor that we dont know what he wants with complete certainty, and I only got 2 weeks before I have to deliver it.

Though, it's because the sponsor is trying to process through our stuff to make some suggestions.

I got other tasks as well around this project.

These other tasks are pretty close to done.

That's a pain. How are you supposed to deliver if scope is undefined?

We got to clarify with a proposal

Is this what you have in mind?

More or less.

I usually just treat scope as a scope statement and leave the details in the schedule, but it seems PMI dictates that all the tasks being in the scope portion and the schedule is just timing and dependencies.

With one of the proposals, I fear that one of the things I worked on would be useless.

And my boss is telling me to "look forward."

It'll probably make more sense to me after my nap.

He was saying how this one thing that i worked on might seem useless now, it doesnt mean scrap it. Just keep it just in case.

Like how we never know our research will be useful until decades later.

also, you can't get that time back

He's basically reminding you of the "Sunk cost fallacy." That's a promising sign that your boss is a man of integrity.

I dont know the sunk cost fallacy.

Can you explain it?

Based on what I've read of it, i dont see how it applies.

Software development is pretty different. You could create tools that you wind up not using, but you could salvage for another problem.

In this case, it's time and effort.

Yes

What @Deleted User said

He's dumped a lot of time and effort into a feature. However, since there's no way to recoup that "cost," it doesn't make sense to let it factor into your decisions.

that said, the absence of reward for work done is a motivational hygiene called extinction.

And, this specifically was illustrated in class. Engineers do some work, the boss says, yeah, we're not going this direction anymore, scrap it all. Engineers stop trying so hard and even quit.

i think i'm thick 😧

I dont think this logic applies very well with my situation at the moment.

never know what you're talking about

He's telling me to keep this piece because it may become useful for our sponsor again.

I may be misinterpreting too.

Im exhausted.

I am pretty sure clients can be charged for changing direction

At least in my case they do