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Gregory Witek
Gregory Witek

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Why we use points in Agile estimation

In this video I'm talking about why we use points estimation instead of estimating how much time will features take to implement. This is something I often need to explain to junior developers and I believe it deserves a few minutes video. Agile software development, while in my opinion strongly overrated and in the past overhyped, became a standard in our industry and whether we want it or not, sooner or later we have to deal with agile estimation, Scrum and other rituals.

🎥 Video timeline:

0:00 Intro

1:05 What's wrong with time estimation

3:30 Example from non-software world

4:15 Introducing (story) points

7:12 What is "velocity"

8:50 Outro

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