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I just want the real agile back. The nice thing about a deadline is the tech illiterate understand them just as well as the people building it do. You can chec
by Test0129 4y ago
I just want the real agile back.
The nice thing about a deadline is the tech illiterate understand them just as well as the people building it do. You can check in and have stand ups about the deadline all you want. You can even track work in tickets. Just no pointing. Ever.
- BowBun 4y agoHow would the team have any idea whether they can meet a deadline without estimates? I like the way we've set it up at my company. In product/engineering, we use our estimates and plan our projects in quarters and project more or less based on how many points teams have completed in the past. Outside of product/engineering, we report milestones on our projects with expected delivery dates. We don't mention the points because they mean nothing to the rest of the business without context. The only big problem I have with pointing is when those numbers are used as performance metrics or judged by outside stakeholders without context on the work. I think we've solved for that and get to reap the benefits