@matigo No, not even in Finnish. Unless that is the only thing I need to focus on. 😆
@matigo Also, what I read is 99% fiction, so the books are not overly complex to begin with. But there is a big difference between a 300-pager in Finnish and a 1000+-pager in English that also has some funky ”dialects” and story-specific words and phrases.
@matigo I try to read for 20 minutes in the morning while having breakfast. Then I read in the evening if I happen to have time, and that can range from 5 minutes to an hour.
It also depends on the book how fast I can complete it. If it is ”easy to read” (that is, it is max 400 pages, in Finnish, and does not have a complex plot) it will be over in a week or so, if I can read it every morning and evening.
#bookclub Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (🇫🇮, Viimeinen Pirulainen), ISBN 978-951-1-43427-6
That’s it for that saga. For now. This book took a lot longer to complete than the previous ones, I had a lot breaks while reading it due to other, more important things™ .
#bookclub George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5: A Dance with Dragons (🇬🇧), ISBN 978-0-553-84112-1
@matigo Indeed. Those comments and questions came from the project's mismanager, and both the product owner and the project manager of the mobile app were, how would I put this, rather surprised when those were presented. They (and I as well) were under the impression that the mobile would just implement that one planned feature by the end of the year. Those 2 additional things have been planned and approved to be implemented next year, but apparently that information had not reached the project either.
I am expecting to be asked about an estimate on how much work those 2 features would require and, as it is always the utmost important question, when they would be ready… 🙄
Well, that was an interesting meeting…
A project had promised to its steering group that all project functionalities would be ready by the end of the year (insert surprised response here…) and they were asking about when the mobile app we work on would release the remaining 2 major features (a third one is planned and will be released before the end of the year). Well, did you ask us if this timetable would even be feasible? Of course you did not, because why should you… 🙄 Yes, while those 2 major features are on our roadmap and backlog, their implementation will very likely start next year at earliest as we don't have enough resources to work on them (or all the other things that are wanted from us) at the moment.
Speaking of resources, a "fun" comment from the same meeting: "we did not reserve any budget for the mobile development from the project". Well, duh, if you would have given money to the mobile development, which serves also a bunch of other projects, we could have had extra hands to help us and the different features would have been possible to be done earlier. But no, that would be… I don't know, something reasonable?