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[VLOG] How To Save Time During Sprint Planning With #NoEstimates

October 28, 2021

What's up awesome people? I hope you are having an awesome week. I have been asked by several of my viewers to make a video about story points. I have been reluctant to do it because how misused and misunderstood story points has become in our industry. I explained how misused and misunderstood the story point in forms of parody in today's vlog.

In today's vlog, I also demonstrate a complimentary practice that your Scrum Team can use during Sprint Planning to make a forecast on how many Product Backlog items they should bring into the the Sprint with #NoEstimates. Yes, #NoEstimates. No estimates each Product Backlog item either in story points or even hours. I hope you enjoy the video and I hope you can find inspiration to cut time short in Sprint Planning so your Scrum team can spend more time developing awesome products.

 

 


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Richard Mann
05:20 pm November 26, 2021

I honestly found the first half of this video to be emotive and insulting. Our teams capably to estimate using Story Points is fine and my interest in your proposal, while quite high to begin with, could not withstand the ridiculous assertion that the alternative to your suggestion is sitting in an estimation meeting for days arguing.

Perhaps you should waste less time insulting people and a little more time providing helpful information.