Thank you I find that helpful. The first week of December the client flew down and we had a massive discussion talking about the direction the project needs to go, goals for short and long term, and discussing what communication points need to be improved. We have daily stand up meetings and bi weekly steering meetings. Those are incredibly valuable.
I do like the idea of assigning points and having a set amount to tackle per week.
points are also good for the business, this will allow the business to estimate cost of a task
let's say each developer take 10 points per week and each developer costs 1000$,this will help them prioritize, it's now easy for them to calculate the cost of a task
we've had few tasks that take a long time, that would have been pushed through without much thought, but seeing the cost allowed them to see what other tasks are important
we have 1,2,4,8,16 points,
anything that is 8 or 16 points needs to be broken up into multiple smaller tasks.
1 and 2 point tasks are usually good estimation, this can be 1 hour to 1-2 day tasks
4 points are more unknown and they can take 2-4 days
8 points, are to big to really know, 2 devs should sit down and define into multiple tasks
16 points, this can take weeks to do and need very good definition with business, we allow us to take 1 week to define this task, sometimes needing to talk with different departments, it's then put into the plan week after
the points estimation is mostly just a feeling, but with experience comes better guessing
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Thank you I find that helpful. The first week of December the client flew down and we had a massive discussion talking about the direction the project needs to go, goals for short and long term, and discussing what communication points need to be improved. We have daily stand up meetings and bi weekly steering meetings. Those are incredibly valuable.
I do like the idea of assigning points and having a set amount to tackle per week.
points are also good for the business, this will allow the business to estimate cost of a task
let's say each developer take 10 points per week and each developer costs 1000$,this will help them prioritize, it's now easy for them to calculate the cost of a task
we've had few tasks that take a long time, that would have been pushed through without much thought, but seeing the cost allowed them to see what other tasks are important
we have 1,2,4,8,16 points,
anything that is 8 or 16 points needs to be broken up into multiple smaller tasks.
1 and 2 point tasks are usually good estimation, this can be 1 hour to 1-2 day tasks
4 points are more unknown and they can take 2-4 days
8 points, are to big to really know, 2 devs should sit down and define into multiple tasks
16 points, this can take weeks to do and need very good definition with business, we allow us to take 1 week to define this task, sometimes needing to talk with different departments, it's then put into the plan week after
the points estimation is mostly just a feeling, but with experience comes better guessing