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Benoit COUETIL 💫 • Edited

Thanks.

This is widely used in software. You will find this everywhere on internet.

Back in the days, when we were estimating in our teams, before #NoEstimate, I used it mostly in 2 occasions :

  • In backlog refinement, when everyone is "guessing". This is a common usage to only use Fibonacci.
  • During Extreme Quotation sessions : you estimate a whole bunch of US by putting them in columns, each one with a Fibonacci size, and an US from the past as reference.

When I was a junior developer, I did not know yet this agile practices, so I estimated without Fibonacci.