Allen HolubApr 20, 2023
If you're using story points 😱, please bear in mind that you cannot do math with them. Think of points as arbitrary symbols. E.g., averaging them is like saying (🐰+🦖+🐱)/3 .
Show threadPomegranate County IrregularsApr 20, 2023

@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.

Show threadAllen HolubApr 20, 2023
@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.
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@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 I’m no manager and I won’t be writing a business book so it doesn’t matter what I think.

Apr 20, 2023 at 11:16pmWeb
Show threadAllen HolubApr 21, 2023
@pomCountyIrregs Resources are fungible. People are not.