Have we as an industry gotten any better at delivering projects on time? If you have a lot of dysfunction in your organization no software is going to fix that. Or to put it another way, you can’t solve people problems with software.
I’ve never worked on a team where any nontrivial task could be done by any two people in roughly the same amount of time.
Experience, skill, subject area familiarity — everyone is different.
It is utter madness to estimate sprints before assigning the work!
I said I had no idea. I just put how I felt. Some things looked simple but gave me a bad feeling; the bad feeling was always mostly justified.
Every day I'd add up all the emojis for the day, which adds up to ~8 hours. After a week, we add them up again for ~40 hours. Eventually we got a pretty decent estimate that :) meant half an hour and the vomiting one would be at least 3 days.
Some emojis like the grimacing were an indicator that we needed to run a spike on this - it just wasn't groomed enough. Some are an indicator that we didn't trust the other person expected to handle this.
Everyone has different emojis just as they have different emotions about the same task. One person may like refactoring, another may be better at UI.
None are entirely accurate but such is the nature of software. Story points are misleading because they are precise but inaccurate.
The obsession with predictability in an unpredictable process is the real problem, especially in copilot and cursor era. :D
If people are arguing between 3 and 21 points there's a mismatch in understanding what the work entails.