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Eljay-Adobe

I can provide 100% accurate estimates, as long as I can provide them in arrears of after having done the work.

I can meet any deadline my boss sets for me, as long as the software doesn't have to work properly.

Jesting aside...

For the actual work, I look at things as "small, medium, or big". And then for the small bucket, I divvy them up as "smallest (1), smaller (2), small (3)". The medium bucket as "smaller medium (5), average medium (8), larger medium (13)". The big bucket as "big (20), bigger (40), biggest (100)".

The pseudo-fibonacci numbers in parens are what I enter for the story points in Jira. It's just used by the PM to order things when factoring in the "effort" guesstimate. The PM doesn't calculate or use velocity, but that would be another possible use case.