Estimating stories in days has always been notoriously inaccurate. So agile invented estimating stories in “points” and everyone gave a sigh of relief. Except there were two big problems… Problem #1: Urgency In an ideal world, no work is urgent. In the real world, plenty of work is urgent. On our team, for example, Coronavirus…… Continue reading Better Estimates
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Estimation: “ideal days” vs “relative size”
A common criticism of using “relative size” is that developers tend to estimate in ideal days and then translate it to relative size. I disagree. I find myself doing the opposite. This week, when asked for an estimate i said “twice what it took us to deliver X”. Where X was a feature that we…… Continue reading Estimation: “ideal days” vs “relative size”