The Estimation Theatre: Why Story Points Are Just Astrology for Developers
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I once sat in a sprint planning meeting where four engineers spent 35 minutes debating whether a ticket was a 5 or an 8. The ticket? Adding a tooltip to a form field. One line of JSX. A CSS class. Maybe 20 minutes of actual work. But we had to consult the sacred Fibonacci sequence. Somebody said, “…
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The Estimation Theatre: Why Story Points Are Just Astrology for Developers