Thanks, Kevin - this is exactly what I was looking for! Cheers,
Deb -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I have always shied away from T-shirt sizing, because I want to be able to > compare relative sizes mathematically. How many "small" stories could we do > instead of a single "large". Fortunately for me, nobody on the team pushed > for T-shirt sizing, and we agreed on this number system as a group. Credit > to Julien for proposing the basics, which the team tweaked to produce the > posted result. > > Phabricator does allow string entries in the points field, by the way. I > just don't like them. :) > > I look forward to the next several weeks, when we should start to be able > to measure velocity and refine the estimations. > > > > Kevin Smith > Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Stephen Niedzielski < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> \o/ This is awesome! At my last gig, we started using "t shirt" size >> columns (small, medium, large, XL) when we had a couple epics worth of >> stories to point. It was much easier to keep a sense of scale when sizing >> stories next to each other. Each story card would land in a size column and >> there would often be some column adjustments in the process, "how could >> that possibly be a 'medium' when this is an 'XL'???" On the Android team, I >> know we generally point new event logging functionality at two points but >> otherwise the definition is still a bit murky for me. Glad to see this kind >> of definition! >> >> Stephen >> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I just added a section to the Discovery process page[1] documenting the >>> guidelines that the Portal team uses for story point estimation. I would >>> like to include a corresponding section for the Analysis team. It can be >>> entirely different, since story point values never cross team boundaries. >>> >>> [1] >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/Process#Story_Points >>> >>> Kevin Smith >>> Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> discovery mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discovery mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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