How I Wish I Could Live Without Estimates
summary
A practitioner describes how several Scrum teams stopped using estimates and planning poker, replacing them with an empiric technique to organize work without numeric estimates. The talk explains the problem of decisions driven by biased or conditioned estimates, presents a realistic, evidence-based alternative, and shows team data from companies like Paradigma, Sopra, Accenture, Atmira and NeuronForest demonstrating the approach.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:05Do We Need to Estimate?
- 5:19Politics Affect Estimates
- 7:20The PMP Doesn’t Provide Dates
- 16:12What Does the Scrum Guide Say?
- 17:02In Planning We Talk About Software
- 22:22Nexus Team
- 26:21Real Example
- 30:18The Plan Says What You Want It to Say
- 32:28Estimates Are Invented
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