#EvidencePlan #EstimatesAreBS
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A Practical Guide to #NoEstimates
Look for
Build a list of historical gotchas
Example 13-point ticket from a snail mail mail-merge epic from 2014
“Label size & repetition handling”
Several 1-point tickets
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COUNTING
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Excel | =JIRA() | ADO Open in Excel | Data > From Web |
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Team’s 8wk average Epic ticket resolution rate
Epic ticket count
x Average epic growth rate
= Ticket projections
Ticket projections
÷ Team’s 8wk average Epic ticket resolution rate
= Epic date projection
Update the the date projection weekly.
As you hit development thresholds, communicate updated date projections to stakeholders: