Allen HolubIf you're using story points ๐ฑ, please bear in mind that you cannot do math with them. Think of points as arbitrary symbols. E.g., averaging them is like saying (๐ฐ+๐ฆ+๐ฑ)/3 .
Mr. Bruno 
Demiurg@allenholub Yeah..I guess a bit Fibonacci is more accurate ๐ฐ + ๐ถ +๐ฑ ๐ฑ = ๐ฎ ๐ฎ ๐ฎ
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Pomegranate County Irregulars@allenholub Funny story about a fellow who helped one team do story point math while the team he was in used story points in linear fashion, i.e., 1+1=2.
For the first team, this fellow, who looks a lot like me, converted sps into estimated hours so calculations could approximate linearity.
All the while wondering why use the Fibonacci series? How does that make sense? Ultimately resources are allocated in linear time and person measurements.
@pomCountyIrregs IMO, people (not resources, I don't allocate pencils) are never allocated. Do not form teams around the work. Instead, form the work around the teams.
@allenholub Above my pay grade for much of that.
No point in getting into semantics, but time and people are resources in my book. One has a certain amount of both in the near future. How are they to be applied?
But Iโm no manager and I wonโt be writing a business book so it doesnโt matter what I think.
@pomCountyIrregs Resources are fungible. People are not.
Ron Jeffries
spectrum@RonJeffries @allenholub @gdinwiddie
Can you give an example? I'm not as experienced as you guys are and from my experience point arithmetics is /mostly/ unreasonable as well.
Can you give an example? I'm not as experienced as you guys are and from my experience point arithmetics is /mostly/ unreasonable as well.
@spectrum @allenholub @gdinwiddie
If story points are to be useful, they need to correlate well with time. As such, adding them should wor moderately well.
If story points are to be useful, they need to correlate well with time. As such, adding them should wor moderately well.
Chris Johnson@allenholub alright but I think we can all agree that ๐ฐ+๐ฆ+๐ฑ / 3 = ๐ฆ