My PMs are all about time allocation… yet they fail to understand what research is.

Pm: How long until you finish designing and implementing this thing?

Me: I cant put a time on it, weve never done this before and have no points of reference. So i could figure it out today or a month from today…i cant give you a time because its bever been implemented.

PM: Sighs in dissapproval… ill just say 5 business days. Hows that.

Me: if we are just making up numbers, sure