I fucking hate Jira. Real opinions from real people about a project management system which unfortunately is also real. “Jira isn’t bad if setup in a lightweight fashion” is a 🦄 argument. If something is customisable, people will customise. Jira is the MySpace of issue tracking systems.
The problem? For example, 3 guys wrote a paper in 86 and they said that a good estimate is an estimate that’s within 25% of the original estimate, 75% of the time … so, mostly one quarter wrong . Yikes, not a very good prospect at all. The gist of #noestimates to determine how much scope can be delivered by a given date: Select the most important piece of work you need to do (highest value first) Break that piece of work down into risk-neutral chunks of work: (…) small enough that failing to deliver it at first attempt will not jeopardize the project [typically ~1 day chunks] Develop (…) Deliver that work to a production-like environment. Work is only done when it is ready to be used by real customers. Iterate and refactor : The first implementation can only reflect a first step in understanding what needs to be done. Be careful to let the system stabilize before it can provide reliable averages to predict the teams’ throughput. ...
#noestimates: using throughtput as a metric to predict progress Vasco Duarte ( ALE Hangout with Vasco Duarte: No Estimates @ 41:50 )
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