Forrest BrazealDoes your team play some form of "planning poker" to help estimate the size of upcoming tasks?
trying to get a sense of how prevalent this still is.
Yes
No
Used to, but not anymore
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AndiMann@forrestbrazeal Just for some color, I have worked with my Eng teams to use VSM metrics, analytics, ML, collab tools, feedback loops to come up with more reliable estimates.
It is not easy, and for sure not perfect, but was way better than planning poker, and unlike loud voices or opinions, data-driven product management can show continuous improvement.
YMMV ofc
Le Chep@forrestbrazeal we toss numbers in the channel adjacent to the Slack huddle. Some people groan when it's not Fibonacci.
It ends up that 1-2-3-5-8-13 is treated in practice as isomorphic to XS-S-M-L-XL-XXL except for the guy (there's always one) who streams Jira into Google Sheets and uses the number to paint cells (or so it seems).
Whatever, toss a number into Slack, move on while someone plays "I'm working" filling fields in Jira.
Viktor@forrestbrazeal yes, but it's mostly a useless bureaucratic exercise. Garbage in garbage out.
Eszter@forrestbrazeal We play planning uno - where we try to reverse the tasks to the team it came from, group stories together then set aside and eventually put back into the box. The seniors always get the draw +4 cards because we show less emotion about it. We still call it poker though.