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Discussion on: Why Estimates Are Waste

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Ben Brazier

What analytics would they be doing? I imagine it would be something to do with estimating how much work can get done in a sprint.

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Mike Talbot ⭐ • Edited

We'd do this for Weighted Shortest Job First - so asking a dev: "is this a much bigger job than that? Because if it is I'll rank the one you think is easier first", and of course, possibly never do the really really hard job as it might not be valuable enough. We don't really do this for sprints - just for epics/features etc.

We also insist that those putting a value on a thing also make T shirt sizes for the value.