Monthly Archives: September 2011

The Real Reason We Estimate

This post is from leadingagile.com by Mike Cottmeyer. Over the past few months, various blog posts have popped up talking about estimation, how estimation is unnecessary, how estimation is waste… and that maybe we should stop estimating entirely and just get down … Continue reading

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An introduction to scary points

One of the fundamental aspects of Scrum is to organise work into user stories to which the team collectively assigns complexity points.  From this, the team’s sprint velocity can be determined and this in turn aids the ability to estimate … Continue reading

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