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Status Future consideration
Categories Capacity planning
Created by Jeff Tucker
Created on Nov 8, 2021

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Estimate in points, but log work in time

My agile development team uses story points for estimation. Once work is in progress, I want my developers to log work in time. This helps me understand where their time is going, and to inform future estimates for planning.

Release time frame 6 months
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  • Dan Kaytes
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    |     Jul 5, 2023

    Additionally, we use hours for capitalization of development costs. The budgets are driven by hours worked, not be story points.

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Log work in time while estimating in points

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Story points are predictive. We want to reflect on those predictions to compare them against real data. Our goal is to provide metrics like "on average, it takes us X time to complete 8 story points." To support this goal, we want to estimate in s...
Jeff Tucker over 2 years ago in Capacity planning 1 Future consideration