Show HN: Featmap – a user story mapping tool built with Go, React and TypeScript

Re:Show HN: Featmap – a user story mapping tool built with G... by Redsquare on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @12:24PM (#20758763)

20 'points' (whatever they are) last week has zero bearing on what will be accomplished this week, or next or in 6 months time. Vanity metrics. Your silently forcing them to be a feature factory and act in a consistent robotic fashion no matter what the problem at hand is. I bet your tech debt velocity is increasing weekly.

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Re:Show HN: Featmap – a user story mapping tool built with G... by latchkey on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @09:44PM (#20763873)

This is why velocity is a 3 week average of points and can be overridden in the tool to show people who are out on vacation/sick. The tool dynamically updates to show what stories make it into an iteration as well.

The whole idea is not to force people into a box. It is to just give PM's a way to plan the future. Obviously, things can change so it isn't some forceful thing at all.

Don't knock it until you've tried it. I had an opinion like you and then I went and worked in this system and it totally changed my mind.

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Re:Show HN: Featmap – a user story mapping tool built with G... by trastentrasten on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @01:38PM (#20759415)

I tend to agree. I have found the number of stories to have som utility as a metric, though.

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