Story points = hours
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4x4 bingo?
Bing (or I guess to keep up with the song, _ingo)
So what's the actual error margin for estimating feature implementation time? It's going to be nearly the whole thing, right?
Wildly depends on the complexity of the feature. If it only takes 4 hours to implement, you might have good enough of an idea what needs to be done that you can estimate it with 1-hour-precision. That is, if you're only doing things that you've done in a similar form before.
If the feature takes two weeks to implement, there's so many steps involved in accomplishing that, that there's a high chance for one of the steps to explode in complexity. Then you might be working on it for six weeks.
But yeah, I also double any estimate that I'm feeling, because reality shows that that ends up being more accurate, since I likely won't have all complexity in mind, so in some sense my baseline assumed error is already 100%.
Hmm, so kinda O(n^1.5^) scaling? (Of the ratio between definitely required time and possibly required time, anyway, since a -110% error wouldn't make sense)
Really not sure an estimate for algorithmic complexity is the right way to specify this. 😅
But if your supposed input unit is days, then I guess, yeah, that kind of works out.
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Nah, time tracking is often needed for tax purposes: companies can write off R&D expenses
Yeah but that can be done after you're finished, definitely shouldn't be part of planning!
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Do people not know how bingo cards work anymore?
All-day "Sprint Grooming" meeting
Might as well put the whole Agile/Scrum crap on there while you're at it...
Disagree. My company does it well and I think it helps productivity across the board. My last job called our process agile and it was really just water-scrum-fall. Which was horrible and we devs were all miserable.
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