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[Mark Wieder]

Pete-

Saturday, January 4, 2014, 10:07:39 PM, you wrote:

> I guess it's a different world these days.  The thought of trying to assess
> progress on a daily basis seems like a major case of micro management to
> me.  No matter what the reporting period is, if someone isn't good at
> estimating their progress, the project slips. Splitting a project into such
> small tasks that they can be measured on a daily basis seems practically
> impossible.  Plus, back to the critical path issue, if a sprint or whatever
> you want to call it takes twice as long as estimated but still doesn't
> affect the overall project end date, so what?

Here's a big part of what makes that work for us: if you have a
backlog of 200 points and your team is working at a velocity of 20
points per week, you've got ten weeks of work ahead of you. If a given
story can't be done, it goes back into the backlog and you know
there's going to be some extra time needed in addition to those ten.
The key is to get good at estimating the time needed for the stories
themselves, and that's *much* easier than estimating the size of the
whole project.

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-Mark Wieder
 ahsoftware at gmail.com