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It's not a problem if sizes are different. That's why they are scored. Points are only mean something with a constant team anyway. No point in comparing betwee
by pas 7y ago
It's not a problem if sizes are different. That's why they are scored.
Points are only mean something with a constant team anyway. No point in comparing between different companies, teams, projects.
Also, you can estimate time based on points. After you have some baseline velocity for the given team-project setup.
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I don't know what kind of estimation meetings you had to suffer through, but the ones we did were the usual SCRUM poker, and then the PM tool just gives you the estimate based on the team's past velocity. No hand-waving. It's data driven. And anyone has any problem with the date can talk to the PM and decide which features to cut/change.
- XorNot 7y agoMine have always had no forewarning, no list of items we'll be potentially estimating (so I could, for example, inspect the codebase and see how much work a 1-line description might be hiding) and then immediately afterwards someone more senior usually rides in and throws a bunch more items at the wall.
- pas 7y agoThat seems like a perfect recipe for disaster. We had those, and simply started to say no, that's bullshit. Eventually reality won :)