Should Tasks be Estimated?
There is a great discussion going on at the ScrumDevelopment mailing list about whether tasks should be estimated. It was started off by Tobias Mayer when made this observation:
“I recently heard that some CSM trainers are recommending that teams use story points to estimate the size of tasks. This baffles me. I think they are called story points for a reason: they are used to measure the relative size of stories.” link
Jeff Sutherland then follows this up with a post that describes how a team he’s working with decided to only measure completed stories …
“They only burned down when a story was done and done meant fully tested at the functional level, not just unit tested as at many companies.” link
In his post, Jeff discusses why they decided to only measure completed stories, and the results of that decision. Interesting and thought provoking reading.
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