Neophyte question about Estimates
Chris Rice
What are the units of the "Estimates" next to backlog items. I saw some doc that seemed to imply it was hours, but then saw something else that suggested it was dimensionless.
And can someone refer me to the best doc page that describes how these numbers are used?
Thanks.
Lisa Hagin
Bob Rohlf
Chris
Estimates are in story points. If the column is “Detailed Estimates” the values of the column are time. This is true in all versions.
A detailed estimate is useful if used consistently. Particularly if you also enter capacity for your team members on a project. At a glance you can tell if your resource pool matches the work estimated for the sprint. Keep in mind that the capacity is a fixed number (barring the addition or subtraction of resources in the course of a sprint). So you need to evaluate the work remaining against the capacity remaining. For example, if you have a 2 week sprint and 100 hours of capacity, at the end of week 1/start of sprint 2 you will have only 50 hours of capacity remaining. (The system will still show the original 100 hours, so you need to do this calculation for yourself.) If your anticipated work exceeds this amount, you will have to address it by adding resources or time to complete.
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Chris Rice
Griffith, Mary Lou (N-GHG CORP)
Chris unless you have customized the field, it refers to points. You change the header so that it says that, or if you have a hosted instance, you can get VersionOne to update that for you. Contact them about that.
Mary Lou
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Jeremy Keeler
Estimates are a dimensionless value that guesses how long something will take. They account for your velocity and will end up equating to a “time” but not necessarily a 1-1 ratio. For example 1 point may be a perfect 8 hour working day however no one can really do that with meetings and other stuff so 1 point will not actually equal one day. Maybe 1.5 days. These estimates along with the team velocity are used to burn down a project.
Tasks on the other hand which you add to a story will have hours associated with them. These tasks and hours are used in the team room for the sprint burn down.
So it’s a bit strange the project you burn down using these “points” and your teams sprint velocity is using points but the team themselves burn down tasks and hours in their sprint.
But it does work J. We typically don’t add tasks and hours to stories until the sprint planning.
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Jeff Cox
http://community.versionone.com/Help-Center/Common-Questions/How_do_I_do_Estimation_in_VersionOne%3F
On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 8:26:55 AM UTC-5, Chris Rice wrote: