Agile estimation - why story points are better than using time?
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Published 2020-11-03
This is something I often need to explain to junior developers and I believe it deserves a few minutes video. Agile software development, while in my opinion strongly overrated and in the past overhyped, became a standard in our industry and whether we want it or not, sooner or later we have to deal with agile estimation, Scrum and other rituals.
🎥 Video timeline:
0:00 Intro
1:05 What's wrong with time estimation
3:30 Example from non-software world
4:15 Introducing (story) points
7:12 What is "velocity"
8:50 Outro
As always, if you have any questions, suggestions or foodback, you can contact me:
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Credits:
The Kenyan gentleman is Eliud Kipchoge and I took the photo from Wikipedia: By Denis Barthel - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72802002
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All Comments (13)
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What's your experience with estimations, do you have some best practices that worked well in your team?
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Man! I am not sure what is your exact profile but you have super clear way of explaining things!!!
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Yet another fantastic video! Thanks!
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Very nice explaination, Thanks so much!!
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Very nice and clear explanation on estimations.
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Great video!
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Hello and thanks buddy, funny how am just seeing your channel. This is the best video on story points have watch. I have a QUESTION: How do you determine the velocity of a team. The accurate velocity of a team that is new to using story points?
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Gud one
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But isn't estimating story points in that manner still relative to individual capabilities? In your example, if Alice estimates a new feature in story points it will be completely different than if Charlie estimates it
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story points blow, can you imagine story point poker
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Sorry not buying. How would you tell the relative estimate of a 100 different stories with different requirements. Also seems like the solution to Alice/Bob/Charlie problem is just have Alice estimate all the issues.
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trying to abstract points from time is pointless as its ultimately what they are there for just by a different name
