u/RageQuitFPSin r/programming • Recommends
On “Why Sprint estimation has broken Agile”
That's true, but story points weren't originally invented for PMs. They were invented for the work-doers to have an understanding of how much work they can take on in a sprint. It was meant to be very simple. If you estimated that you could do 18 points in a sprint but you only accomplished 15, then next sprint you did 15. If that sprint, you actually had capacity for 20, then the sprint after that you did 20. It was very loose and unscientific, but not taken too seriously.
If you read Ron Jeffries's blog on the subject, initially they estimated in "ideal days", which meant "how long this would take if they had full days of focus time with no meetings or other interruptions"
Eventually peo…