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Rinzler89 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Story points are pointless, measure queues

Which is just time and effort estimations with extra steps and cargo culting.

Viliam1234 3 months ago [–]

Sadly, if you avoid the extra steps and say "I think this will require 10 working days", some manager will reply "are you absolutely 100% sure that it couldn't be done in 9 working days?".

For some reason, calling it "10 story points" does not provoke the same instinctive response.

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