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To use story points, you would have a linear model of some sort so that you could calculate how long, on average, a story point would take to complete. If you
by fugue88 17y ago
To use story points, you would have a linear model of some sort so that you could calculate how long, on average, a story point would take to complete.
If you know how to do that (the model), you could apply the exact same technique to the "estimated time" numbers to get a more realistic "expected time."
Changing from time to points won't improve the developer estimates at all; instead, it will further obfuscate them and reduce accountability, in my opinion.
- jbrun 17y agoThanks, that is my inclination as well.
- jamesbritt 17y agoDanielBMarkham is correct. The goal is to first get a feel for estimating tasks relative to each other. Then, over time, see how many story points you complete in a given time, and eventually use that to make a correlation between points and hours. The advantage of not going straight to time estimates is that you avoid the tendency to think you can get more done in a given time that is realistic.