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Stop Using Story Points
I recently read this incredibly interesting post from Industrial Logic by Joshua Kerievsky about his experiences with using story points in the agile development process. I have personally always been a bit wary of story points, since in the end, they just seem to get translated back into hours anyway. I have been witness to this several times, both as a developer and a Scrum Master. When you ask people to estimate in story points, preferably with the standard definition of 1 story point equals one day of productive work, then you invariably get estimates that when you multiply them by 8 are the same as they would have been if you had estimated in hours in the first place. Read more…
Testing and the Definition of Done
Previously, I have written about my current project, a system used by Stockholm Country Council for computing compensation from the county to the various health care providers within the county for services provided to the people of Stockholm. I have also mentioned previously that I have taken the role of de facto Scrum Master. In addition, I have become the de facto test manager in the team. The system does not really have users per se, but rather, it takes input in the form of XML files, it makes a bunch of calculations on this data and then it spits out some new XML files. Read more…
