Estimate – Lean Agile Guru

Oct

15

2021

Relative Sizing

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"Story points are relative, without a connection to any specific unit of measure. The size (effort) of each story is estimated relative to the smallest story, which is assigned a size of ‘one.’ A modified Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100) is applied that reflects the inherent uncertainty in estimating, especially large numbers (e.g., 20, 40, 100)" -- Scaled Agile. Inc. Here is a guidance on Relative Sizing. Continue reading

Invest In Good User Stories Part III

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Day 56. A good story — user type or enabler type — is estimable. In order for it to be implemented, the agile team must estimate how complex a story is and the amount of work required to complete it. Continue reading

The Product Backlog Estimate

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The estimate is in Points -- a measureless thingy to gauge the team's effort to define, build, test, and potentially deploy a thing of value. The estimate does not mean, 'it will take us this much time to build this thing.' The estimate is a starting point, a best guess, from which the Story -- even the Iteration and even the whole backlog for this matter -- can be empirically managed. The Scrum team selects the amount of backlog items (Stories) that it believes it can handle (the load vis-a-vis their capacity) in an Iteration based on these estimates. Load…