Damn! Team Just do it!!!

  • normalmighty@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My team has being trying an approach where instead of story pointing, we break everything down into the smallest incremental tasks we reasonably can and use number of tasks overall as the metric instead of story points.

    In theory it’s meant to be just as accurate on larger projects because the larger than normal and smaller than normal tasks all average out, and it save the whole headache of sitting around and arbitrarily setting points on everything based mostly on gut feeling.

    • Doc Avid Mornington@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      I remember reading a study done across some large organizations that showed this approach was more accurate than other estimation techniques. Makes sense to me.

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Huh. That’s such a simple and obvious approach, I’m kinda mad I’ve never thought of it lmao. It seems like you’re essentially breaking everything down to a 1 (or as close as you can get it), which is probably a more accurate measurement anyways. Neat.