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It's been my experience that most business needs involving estimates can't wait until the job is partway done. "Can we afford this" and "should we do this now"
by diiq 5y ago
It's been my experience that most business needs involving estimates can't wait until the job is partway done. "Can we afford this" and "should we do this now" really need some up front answers :)
Vistimo Quotes is specifically for producing rapid estimates that don't require team buy-in, sign-up, etc.
Vistimo (https://www.vistimo.com https://www.vistimo.com) does anonymous, asynchronous team estimation -- but the additional labor costs (sufficiently describing tasks to async folk understand them, managing team permissions, requesting reestimate when requirements change) have made it not particularly viable as a product.
Finding a balance of power and simplicity is never easy.
- impute 5y agoYeah that was the only downside I found with Actionable Agile. It didn't answer the question up-front. However, I think it can work if you're able to estimate the number of tickets instead of time frame. So instead of a best/worst case estimate in time, you'd estimate the best/worst case in number of tickets a task will need to be broken up into. I did this one time when I needed to try to get a better understanding of estimation up front when the work wasn't well defined yet. It's possible that people may give better estimations when thinking about the number of tickets because then you immediately have to think about the number of individual components whereas with time, you're going more by feeling.
- diiq 5y agoThat makes sense! I am constantly interacting with new teams, so I like time because everyone already knows what a day is. A ticket, or a point, or other abstraction changes from team to team and project to project.