Stories estimation while working in services

João Franco — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:21:45 +0000

Hi all,

I switched job about two mounts ago and I'm having a bit hard time adapting to estimate my stories/tasks (as a developer) in hours!
At my last job, we used to make our estimations in hours but we never could deliver so to combat this, the department needed to get more robust, so a bunch of senior people switch departments and helped out. We started to estimate in story points and another impactful changes. This was great because we went from, we couldn't deliver when we were saying we going to, to we deliver 100% of the time!

It's important to say, this was my first job as a developer so for the first 6 months to 1 year I didn't know what was I doing plus the department was in the early stages, so this change had a huge impact on both of us.

Now, in my new job we still estimate in hours because it's a consulting company that does projects for other companies, so the client is paying for the consultant's time (hours) and I'm having a hard time mapping the complexity of the tasks in hours. Does all this part of the industry do this also in hours or there is a better way to tackle this?

Cheers!

I'm building my first CMS website

João Franco — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 22:12:04 +0000

So I'm building my first CMS website ever and it's kind of overwhelming which framework / solution to pick. I've read a lot about it such as dropal, (now dropsl 8),laravel, keystone.js but I still don't know what to pick, and I feel this might have a huge impact once I start to build the website (mostly static but editable content). What could you share on this?

DEV Community: João Franco

Stories estimation while working in services

I'm building my first CMS website