Scrum, Story Points, and THE Answers to the Universe
by Mike Vizdos, 12 October 2010 | The Agile Blogosphere
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Quick.
When you think of estimating and planning techniques in Scrum, what method do you think of first?
Wait.
“There is an official way Scrum says you *must* do estimating and planning,” you may be thinking.
You’d be incorrect.
And.
Thats OK.
See, there is nothing in Scrum that says you have to use any certain technique for estimating and planning.
My recommendation though:
DO SOMETHING.
People will continue arguing about the different techniques for-e-v-e-rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
So what.
If you have something that works today, use it.
If you do not have a clue about how to do estimation and planning, or think:
“Hey we are using Scrum and we do not need to tell the customer when we are going to finish….”
Um… try telling your customer that. Let me know how that goes, because I can pretty much guarantee that answer will...
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