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Can you plan for operational work?

Can you plan for operational work?

by Herbi | Jul 3, 2016 | Agile, Refinement meeting, Scrum, Sprint planning

Operational work is quite hard to plan in a sprint, because it is very hard to estimate how much operational work there is going to be in the upcoming sprint. The previous 4 sprints I was helping out as a scrum master in another team in my company, the CDN team. Those...
Why you should prefer story points over hourly estimations

Why you should prefer story points over hourly estimations

by Herbi | Feb 21, 2016 | Refinement meeting, Scrum, Sprint planning

Every now and then people ask “What is a story point?” And then somebody gives the answer like “A story point in our team is about 3-5 hours work for one person!” Did you hear this as well? Or did you even give such an answer to other people? I...

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