http://agilitateur.azeau.com/ Développement logiciel et méthodes agiles fr Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:27:58 +0100 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear http://agilitateur.azeau.com/post/2006/11/17/The-Time-Dilation-of-an-Ideal-Day#c92 urn:md5:72e1a42097d612736fddd959891b4cf5 Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:22:06 +0100 oaz &quot;We know that such estimates are not really accurate&quot;<br /> And, anyway, most of the time we are not able to provide more accurate ones ! http://agilitateur.azeau.com/post/2006/11/17/The-Time-Dilation-of-an-Ideal-Day#c90 urn:md5:d9d0424894af8ace2d113fa9ea0fcff6 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:31:56 +0100 Avangel I really like this way of estimating with story points from your own time estimates. <br /> <br /> The scale you propose is really interesting, for the reasons you explained, and in my opinion because we naturally think with those ranges : about an hour or two, half a day, one day, half a week, a week, or more.<br /> <br /> We know that such estimates are not really accurate, but the story points are tolerant to small variations, while providing a reliable basis for planning iterations. I think there is too many factors that we can't predict, that can alterate your estimates; so let's take a small uncertainty in estimates, that allows us to face such events without breaking drastically our plans.