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Our team had so many planning poker sessions where we spent 12 people * 2 dev hours trying to figure out whether stories were a 2 or a 3, management finally sai
by throwaway9191aa 3y ago
Our team had so many planning poker sessions where we spent 12 people * 2 dev hours trying to figure out whether stories were a 2 or a 3, management finally said it is always a 3. We were literally spending more aggregate time trying to decide effort, than the actual effort it took to complete these tasks.
2 and 3 are equal. 5 and 8 are equal. The question is simply "Is this a couple days, the whole week, or the whole sprint?".
- dsr_ 3y agoThe only reasonable estimates, ever: + That's trivial, it will be ready for testing before lunch. + I know how to do that, should be ready tomorrow/next day. + I can see how to do that but there are lots of other constraints - at least a week, might be more. + It's a big project, needs more planning and specification before it becomes a series of estimable tasks. Let's do that. + That breaks other things we care about. We need to prioritize and be ready for rework. If you want, you can call these small, medium and large.
- politician 3y agoI completely agree with these levels, but disagree with mapping them to “small, medium, and large.” That’s a lossy compression if you will, and the heart of the problem. A shorthand might start with good intentions, but rapidly is muddied by conflicting interests.