Improve Estimates
Improve Estimates
- Usually teams are bad at estimating because they struggle to break down their work.
- Often, the product owner writes up large epics instead of User Stories and then it’s up to the team to break that down into a sprint deliverable.
- When in the team’s hands, stories are usually broken into ease of engineering instead of product value
- Bad estimates are usually just a sign of poorly written User Stories.
- When stories are written as a list of technical requirements, it is easy to overload a single person with a certain skillset and leave the rest of the team scrambling for work.
- On the flip side, when stories are written in terms of value to the user, the whole team can get involved and consider how they can contribute to delivering value.