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Yep Kanban is the way to go, focus on flow, small batch sizes, reducing waste of wait times and handovers. Look at cumulative flow and rightsize stories instead
by dreamfactored 9y ago
Yep Kanban is the way to go, focus on flow, small batch sizes, reducing waste of wait times and handovers. Look at cumulative flow and rightsize stories instead of fretting over estimation, points, burndown, and all that mini waterfall that scrum seems to entail. Takes most of the drama and hysteria out of delivery.
- emodendroket 9y agoUltimately it makes no difference whether you're doing "story points" or estimates in units of time. All that's going to happen is they'll be converted to units of time in a way you don't quite understand. It's just so naive to believe any of the Scrum promises.
- dreamfactored 9y agoIt's why we always do rightsizing and never numerical estimates. You can calculate delivery dates by counting stories * average story time - very fast, very simple, and amusingly at least as accurate as detailed time estimates. Has an interesting side effect of tying scope to delivery. So if you want to reduce delivery time, it's clearly understood as under control of stakeholders and done by dropping stories. If you can't rightsize to a reasonably narrow range (we use 1-5 days) and have to estimate (e.g. sifting stories for prioritisation purposes), t-shirt sizing usually works ok and gives the required info without opening it to abuse.