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Discussion on: Why I don't like story-point-driven estimates

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Aurelio • Edited

This is funny. I swear i fell asleep yesterday night right after reading this article titled "Stop using story points".

And now i wake up, open dev.to without even thinking right before breakfast and this is the first article in my feed.

Looks like someone out there really thinks i have to question story points (I agree tbh).
By the way, the gist of the article i linked is

We have been counting items done. Each week we just choose the most important items and sign up for them up to the number from last week. It turns out that we get about the same number of them done regardless of estimated effort. We have 1 week iterations so we tend to break things down a bit at the iteration planning meeting.

Perhaps the effect is that we have learned how to break things down to the right size. I don’t know yet, but the point is we get about 8 things done each week, no estimation required.